pubmed-clinical-mcp

Item: pubmed-clinical-mcp
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

A lightweight MCP server for clinical biomedical literature retrieval, enabling PubMed search, article metadata, full-text access, and evidence summarization through MCP-compatible clients.

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: NCBI_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configPUBMED_MCP_CACHE_PATH— export =".cache/pubmed_clinical_mcp.json"

configNCBI_EMAIL— export ="you@example.com"

🔐 secretNCBI_API_KEY— export ="optional_free_ncbi_key"

configUNPAYWALL_EMAIL— export ="you@example.com"

configPUBMED_MCP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS

configPUBMED_MCP_MAX_RETRIES

configPUBMED_MCP_BACKOFF_SECONDS

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commit: b144aa10fa54e12a6ce153dcce6555acb742e767

code hash: 86f5814c9d81b49a8bb347332099809e02777fc956d3234b40bdd4438ac71820

verified: 7/9/2026, 10:09:38 AM

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