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PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search MCP Server

com.olyport/pubmed
answering

PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Search biomedical literature, get article details, find related articles, and explore MeSH terms

Uptime history 43 hours of history
43 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
528 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pubmed --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/pubmed/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/pubmed/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pubmed]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/pubmed/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/pubmed/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/pubmed/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

article
get_article_detail
Get full details of a PubMed article by its PMID. Returns title, all authors, complete abstract, MeSH terms, publication types, journal info, and DOI. Args: pmid: PubMed ID (e.g. '39142850').
cited
get_cited_by
Find articles that cite a given PubMed article. Useful for tracking the impact and follow-up research of a key publication. Args: pmid: PubMed ID of the article to find citations for. limit: Maximum citing articles to return (default 20, max 100).
mesh
search_mesh
Search the MeSH vocabulary for standardized medical terms. Find MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) descriptors to use in precise PubMed searches. Returns MeSH IDs, preferred terms, and scope notes. Args: term: Search term (e.g. 'diabetes', 'heart failure', 'opioid'). limit: Maximum results (default 10).
pubmed
search_pubmed
Search PubMed for biomedical literature. Find research articles, reviews, and clinical studies matching your search terms. Supports PubMed query syntax including MeSH terms, field tags, and boolean operators. Args: query: Search terms (e.g. 'diabetes prevention exercise', 'breast cancer[MeSH] AND immunotherapy', 'COVID-19 vaccine efficacy'). limit: Maximum results (default 20, max 100). sort: Sort order - 'relevance', 'date', or 'author' (default 'relevance').
related
find_related_articles
Find articles related to a given PubMed article. Uses NCBI's computed similarity to find conceptually related papers. Useful for literature review expansion. Args: pmid: PubMed ID of the source article. limit: Maximum related articles to return (default 10, max 50).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/pubmed/mcp streamable-http answering 538 ms 8 min ago

PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_related_articles, get_article_detail, get_cited_by, search_mesh, search_pubmed. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 528 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search need an API key?
No. PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search?
It answers our handshake in 528 ms on average, which is faster than 21% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.