# PubMed

This provider exposes tools and data accessible through its parent verticals. Use the example prompts as inspiration for your queries.

**Slug:** `pubmed`

**Description:** Search and retrieve scientific articles from PubMed/NCBI. Access abstracts, author information, MeSH terms, citations, and find related research.

## Verticals

This provider is available in the following verticals:

- [Medical](https://kirha.com/verticals/medical.md)

## Example prompts (non-exhaustive)

- `Search PubMed for recent studies on CRISPR gene therapy`
- `Find clinical trials about Alzheimer's disease from 2023`
- `Get the full abstract and authors for PMID 12345678`
- `Find articles similar to this PubMed article`
- `What papers cite this research article?`
- `Search for reviews about machine learning in radiology`

## Available tools in this provider

Open a tool to see its input and output schemas.

### [`fetchPubmedArticles`](https://kirha.com/providers/pubmed/fetchPubmedArticles.md)

Fetch full article details from PubMed using EFetch. Returns complete article metadata including abstract, authors, journal info, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms, and keywords for up to 20 PMIDs. Safe to bind to PMIDs from searchPubmed/findRelatedArticles: an empty pmids array returns empty articles without calling the API.

### [`findRelatedArticles`](https://kirha.com/providers/pubmed/findRelatedArticles.md)

Find related or linked articles in PubMed using ELink. Can find similar articles, references cited by an article, or articles that cite it. Returns article summaries with title, authors, journal, and publication date.

### [`lookupMeshTerms`](https://kirha.com/providers/pubmed/lookupMeshTerms.md)

Resolve natural language medical/scientific terms to their canonical MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) descriptors, for MeSH-based PubMed searches (searchPubmed meshTerms). For example, 'statins' resolves to 'Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors', 'chronic kidney disease' resolves to 'Renal Insufficiency, Chronic'. Returns the canonical heading, scope note, and synonyms for each term.

### [`searchPubmed`](https://kirha.com/providers/pubmed/searchPubmed.md)

Search PubMed for scientific articles. Returns article summaries (title, authors, journal, publication date, DOI) for each result. Use fetchPubmedArticles with the returned pmIds to get full article details (abstract, MeSH terms). Two search modes: (1) query string for most searches — use plain keywords like 'CRISPR gene therapy cancer'; (2) meshTerms array for MeSH-based or MeSH major topic searching; names are mapped to canonical MeSH headings automatically. Supports filters for language/species/age/sex, text availability, date filtering, and pagination. Searches all time by default. Use dateRange or recentDays to filter by date.

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**Tags:** research, medical, science, articles, pubmed, ncbi

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