Medical datasets built from web-scraped content that have a permissive license
7 of the 14 medical datasets built from web-scraped content in the Mdexa database have a permissive license: Chinese Herbal Medicine Sentiment Analysis Dataset, Huatuo-26M, huatuo_encyclopedia_qa, Huatuo26M-Lite, MedMCQA, TCM-Ladder, Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-Dataset-Pretrain.
7 of them carry a source risk flag; a license verdict does not cover source risks.
Datasets 7
Chinese Herbal Medicine Sentiment Analysis DatasetVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only —
License permissive: first-hand data-scope statement(s) allow commercial use and redistribution. Risk flag(s): scraped. Link only.
Traditional Chinese medicine · Annotated corpora · Scraped
Huatuo-26MVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only ≥26M QA pairs
License is permissive, but source risk: content scraped from websites whose terms are not stated; derived from real patient text; link only.
Clinical medicine · QA, dialogue and instruction data · Scraped · Real patient text
huatuo_encyclopedia_qaVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only 364.4K QA pairs
License is permissive, but source risk: content scraped from websites whose terms are not stated; link only.
Clinical medicine · Pharmacy and drugs · QA, dialogue and instruction data · Scraped
Huatuo26M-LiteVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only 177.7K rows
License is permissive, but source risk: content scraped from websites whose terms are not stated; generated by a model; the model's output terms need checking; built from other datasets; link only.
Clinical medicine · QA, dialogue and instruction data · Scraped · Model-generated · Derived
MedMCQAVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only —
License permissive: first-hand data-scope statement(s) allow commercial use and redistribution. Risk flag(s): Exam-derived, scraped. Link only.
Clinical medicine · Question banks and benchmarks · QA, dialogue and instruction data · Exam-derived · Scraped
TCM-LadderVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only 52K questions (claimed)
License is permissive, but source risk: questions come from copyrighted exams; content scraped from websites whose terms are not stated; link only.
Traditional Chinese medicine · Diagnostic methods · Question banks and benchmarks · QA, dialogue and instruction data · Exam-derived · Scraped
Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-Dataset-PretrainVerified by Mdexa PermissiveLink only —
License permissive: first-hand data-scope statement(s) allow commercial use and redistribution. Risk flag(s): Real patient text, scraped. Link only.
Traditional Chinese medicine · Classical texts · Case records · Chinese materia medica · Formulas · Acupuncture, moxibustion and tuina · Diagnostic methods · Clinical medicine · Clinical cases · Databases · Terminologies and coding systems · Real patient text · Scraped
Evidence
- Chinese Herbal Medicine Sentiment Analysis DatasetHugging Face card metadata · MIT · 2026-11-12
license: mit
- Huatuo-26MREADME · Apache-2.0 · 2026-11-12
The Huatuo-26M dataset is licensed under Apache 2.0.
- huatuo_encyclopedia_qaHugging Face card metadata · Apache-2.0 · 2026-11-12
license: apache-2.0
- Huatuo26M-LiteHugging Face card metadata · Apache-2.0 · 2026-11-12
license: apache-2.0
- MedMCQAHugging Face card metadata · Apache-2.0 · 2026-11-12
"apache-2.0"
- TCM-LadderHugging Face card metadata · CC-BY-4.0 · 2026-11-12
license: "cc-by-4.0"
- Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-Dataset-PretrainHugging Face card metadata · Apache-2.0 · 2026-11-12
license: apache-2.0
These are what the sources state; confirm the terms at the source before use.
Entries verified 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-14 · generated 2026-11-14 · Open in the database