david-sprague/Medical-Health-QA-Articles-Dataset

Medical Health Q&A & Articles Dataset — iCliniq, HealthTap & WebMD

A multi-source medical Q&A and health articles dataset combining doctor-answered questions and medically reviewed content from iCliniq, HealthTap, and WebMD. Built for LLM fine-tuning, medical chatbot training, clinical NLP research, and healthcare AI development.

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Dataset Overview

Field	Details
Sources	iCliniq, HealthTap, WebMD
Total Records	1,000 (sample) — 50,000+ full dataset
iCliniq Q&A pairs	50,000+ in full dataset
Content Types	Doctor-answered Q&A + Medical Articles
Specialities	80+ medical specialities
Language	English
Formats	CSV / JSON
Provider	Crawl Feeds

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What Makes This Dataset Valuable

• Verified doctor answers — every iCliniq Q&A pair is answered by a licensed medical professional, with author_speciality field covering 80+ specialities at 99.7% coverage
• Multi-source unified schema — iCliniq, HealthTap, and WebMD all share identical field names and formats, no separate preprocessing needed per source
• content_type field — cleanly separates Q&A pairs from articles, enabling task-specific filtering in one line of code
• 50,000+ iCliniq records — one of the largest verified medical dialogue datasets available outside academic institutions
• author_speciality at 99.7% — enables speciality-specific fine-tuning for cardiology, dermatology, psychiatry, pediatrics, and 80+ other fields
• 100% body_text and answer_text coverage — no missing primary fields, production-ready out of the box

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Data Fields

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
uniq_id	String	100%	Unique record identifier
content_type	String	100%	"qa" or "article"
source	String	100%	Platform name (iCliniq, HealthTap, WebMD)
source_domain	String	100%	Source domain
page_url	String	100%	Direct content URL
title	String	100%	Question title or article headline
body_text	String	100%	Question text or article body
raw_body	String	100%	Raw unprocessed body content
answer_text	String	100%	Doctor's answer (Q&A records)
raw_answer	String	100%	Raw unprocessed answer content
abstract	String	93.9%	Short content summary
category	String	99.7%	Medical category
author_name	String	100%	Author or answering doctor name
author_url	String	100%	Author profile URL
author_image	String	87.9%	Author profile image URL
author_speciality	String	99.7%	Doctor's medical speciality
language	String	100%	Language code
thumbnail	String	4%	Article thumbnail image

Available in Full Dataset at crawlfeeds.com

condition_tags, body_part, content_subtype, medically_reviewed, reviewer_name, author_verified, helpful_count, views_count, published_at, updated_at, word_count, scraped_at

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Use Cases

LLM Fine-Tuning & Pretraining

• Medical domain adaptation — fine-tune LLaMA, Mistral, GPT, or any open-source LLM on verified clinical text
• Instruction tuning — use title + body_text + answer_text as instruction-response pairs for medical assistant models
• RAG knowledge base — index article content from WebMD for retrieval-augmented medical Q&A systems

Medical Chatbot & Virtual Assistant

• Symptom checker training — natural symptom-driven questions from HealthTap mirror real user inputs
• Doctor-patient dialogue models — iCliniq's verified Q&A pairs are ideal for clinical dialogue training
• Triage assistant development — train models to route patient questions to appropriate specialities

Clinical NLP Research

• Named entity recognition — extract medical entities from body_text and answer_text
• Relation extraction — identify symptom-condition-treatment relationships
• Text classification — use category and author_speciality as classification labels
• Question answering benchmarks — evaluate LLM medical knowledge using Q&A pairs

Healthcare AI Products

• Medical knowledge bases — build structured health information systems from article content
• Clinical decision support — use verified doctor answers as evidence base for AI recommendations
• Medical education tools — build study aids and exam preparation tools across 80+ specialities

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Sample Data

{
  "uniq_id": "icliniq_00042891",
  "content_type": "qa",
  "source": "iCliniq",
  "source_domain": "icliniq.com",
  "title": "What causes persistent lower back pain after long sitting hours?",
  "body_text": "I am 34 years old and have been experiencing lower back pain for the past 3 months. The pain gets worse after sitting for long periods at my desk job. It radiates slightly to my left leg.",
  "answer_text": "Based on your description, this sounds consistent with lumbar disc irritation or early-stage sciatica. The radiation to the left leg suggests possible nerve involvement at L4-L5 or L5-S1 level. I recommend an MRI of the lumbar spine and physiotherapy.",
  "category": "Orthopedics",
  "author_speciality": "Orthopedic Surgeon",
  "language": "en"
}

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Loading the Dataset

from datasets import load_dataset
import pandas as pd

dataset = load_dataset("crawlfeeds/Medical-Health-QA-Articles-Dataset")
df = dataset["train"].to_pandas()

# Filter Q&A pairs only
qa_data = df[df["content_type"] == "qa"]

# Filter articles only
articles = df[df["content_type"] == "article"]

# Filter by source
icliniq = df[df["source"] == "iCliniq"]

# Filter by medical speciality
cardiology = df[df["author_speciality"].str.contains("Cardiol", na=False)]

# Prepare instruction tuning pairs
training_pairs = qa_data[["title", "body_text", "answer_text"]].dropna()

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Full Dataset & Custom Data

This is a 1,000 record sample. The full dataset contains:

• 50,000+ verified iCliniq Q&A pairs
• HealthTap and WebMD content
• Complete condition_tags, body_part, and review fields
• Custom subsets by speciality, source, or content type
• Monthly refresh options available

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License

Available under CC BY-NC 4.0 for research and non-commercial use. Commercial licensing available at crawlfeeds.com/contact.

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Citation

@dataset{crawlfeeds_medical_qa_2025,
  author    = {Crawl Feeds},
  title     = {Medical Health Q&A and Articles Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/crawlfeeds/Medical-Health-QA-Articles-Dataset}
}

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