Medicines
Our Medicine finder above helps you find information on medicines authorised for human or veterinary use. You can find these by including the medicine's name or its active substance. It shows you information on centrally authorised medicines - medicines that EMA evaluated. You can also find information on herbal medicines.
Advanced search
Use our advanced search to make use of search filters that are designed to make your search more precise and for finding information on all types of medicine-related procedures, includingrefusedorwithdrawnmedicines.
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Nationally authorised medicines
The medicine you are looking for may be authorised in individual Member States vianational 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.
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EMA's role
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) facilitates development and access to medicines for countries within the European Union (EU). EMA evaluates applications for marketing authorisation submitted via the centralised procedure, monitors the safety of medicines across their lifecycle and provides information to healthcare professionals and patients.
The medicines included in our work include medicines for human use, medicines for veterinary use and herbal medicines.
Read more about what we doIn this section
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What we publish on medicines and when
Therapeutic areas: latest updates
Buying medicines online
To stay safe when buying human or veterinary medicines online, buy only from online retailers registered with the national competent authorities in the EU Member States.
The EU has introduced alogo to help you identify these retailers.
This will help reduce your risk of buying sub-standard or falsified medicines.
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Check the European suspected adverse drug reactions database for reports of suspected side effects and information on how to interpret them
Visit the Veterinary Medicines informattion website for information on authorised veterinary medicines across all EU / EEA countries, including their availability in specific countries.
EMA has several websites and systems to support its work. Some of the information in these systems is available to all visitors, such as details about clinical trials in the EU, reports of suspected side effects, and other medicine-related data.
EMA publishes information on the volume and outcome of marketing authorisation and post-authorisation applications for the human and veterinary medicines that it evaluates.