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PubMed

The US National Library of Medicine's database of biomedical literature citations.

PubMed is a free search engine maintained by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. It indexes ~36 million citations from biomedical literature including MEDLINE, life-science journals, and online books. Each indexed paper has a unique PubMed Identifier (PMID). When research literature cites a specific paper, the PMID is the canonical reference — and a PMID link is the highest-quality citation form for AI engines, search engines, and human review.

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