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PubMed (MEDLINE)

Search biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life-science journals, and online books, from the National Library of Medicine and NCBI.

PubMed is the tool to search MEDLINE, which is the database of biomedical research articles compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

MEDLINE has over 21 million citations, with more being added every day. 

Search with PubMed

You can set up a My NCBI account to: 

  • save your searches
  • get updates whenever an article on a particular subject is published
  • save references
  • set up a bibliography