Search tips

Searching our website's content

This website hosts pages where you can search for specific content. These pages also enable filtering to refine your search:

Due to technical limitations of the machine translation service used to enable translations on this website, these pages are only available in English.

Website content in data files and tables

JSON data format files

EMA's entire website is available in JSON format: text-based, machine-readable data files with structured patterns. Publishing data in this format allows EMA to provide users using automated systems with a source of information for the data and documents that is easy and efficient to extract. The files can be used by anyone who is programmatically fetching documents or metadata.

Download website data in JSON data format

Data tables

You can also download all metadata we publish on medicine-related web pages in table format via:

Download medicine data

Searching by keyword

Search keywords refer to words or phrases that users are most likely to type in to find the information they are looking for on a search engine or website.

Homepage search

The small search box in the top right corner of this website designates our sitewide search.

It enables you to type in keywords or phrases related to the content you are searching for. It then lists search results on our general search page.

To do this, the sitewide search looks for all your keywords in all the website content. It also provides you with suggestions.

General search page

On the General search page itself, you can refine your keyword search.

You can choose how you want to search:

All words – to find content with all your keywords on one page or in a document title (default setting)
Any word – to find content with any of your individual keywords
Exact phrase – to find content with the exact keyword or phrase in the same order

You can reorder the results by using the sort option. Use ‘Closest match’ if you want to see the list of results based on your keywords rather than on the newest published or updated pages or documents (default setting).

Choose how to sort your results

This website renders search results as 'newest first' by default. It does so by prioritising sorting for first published or last updated.

You can reverse this sorting order to show the oldest first.

You can also change the order of your search results by sorting by:

Closest match – results that closely match your keywords and search options (any word, all words, exact phrase)
Alphabetical order – A to Z or Z to A

If you get too many results to be able to sort effectively, use the filters or add more keywords to refine your search.

Bookmarked search links

On 29 September 2026, we removed some of our search filters to improve the user experience of our general search page. We also updated the search paths shown in your browser’s address bar to make them easier to read and understand.

This adjustment affects any search links you might have bookmarked in your browser or saved otherwise. We advise you to carry out your search again and update your bookmark.

For more details, see Website outages and upgrades. You can also fetch data via our JSON data files or download medicine data as published on this website in table format.

Why you may not be able find certain medicines

The medicine you are looking for may be authorised in individual Member States via national procedures, rather than centrally via EMA. Only medicines evaluated by EMA are available on this website.

You may not be able to obtain a complete list of available treatment options for a specific condition by searching on EMA's website.

Check the national registers of authorised medicines for finding medicines authorised via national procedures.