PubMed Skill

Search and retrieve biomedical literature from the NCBI PubMed database via the E-utilities REST API. Access 35+ million citations from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books. No authentication required.

When to use this skill

Invoke this skill when the user wants to:

• Search PubMed for papers on any biomedical or life sciences topic
• Find clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or RCTs on a specific condition or treatment
• Retrieve abstracts or full citation details for one or more PMIDs
• Look up a specific paper by author, journal, year, volume, and page number
• Find papers using MeSH terms, field tags, or advanced Boolean queries
• Get the full bibliographic record for a known article (journal, volume, pages, DOI, PMC ID)
• Explore what the medical literature says about a drug, disease, or intervention

Commands

Search PubMed for articles