medical-research

name: medical-research description: "Find peer-reviewed medical evidence, clinical trials, and scientific papers across PubMed, Europe PMC, ClinicalTrials.gov, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Use when the user asks about treatments, drugs, conditions, or wants to find scientific literature." allowed-tools: Bash(curl:*)

Medical Research

Find peer-reviewed evidence, clinical trials, and scientific papers. No dependencies -- just curl and jq.

Quick example

curl -sf "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=GLP-1%20receptor%20agonists&resultType=lite&format=json&pageSize=5" | jq '.resultList.result // [] | .[] | {title, authorString, journalTitle, pubYear, pmid, doi}'

What you can do

Research a medical topic

Start with Europe PMC -- indexes PubMed, PMC, bioRxiv/medRxiv, and patents in one API. Use resultType=core for abstracts. For AI paper summaries, add Semantic Scholar (requires API key in Keychain semantic-scholar-api-key). See references/europe-pmc.md and references/semantic-scholar.md.

curl -sf "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=semaglutide+obesity&resultType=core&format=json&pageSize=5" | jq '.resultList.result // [] | .[] | {title, pubYear, abstractText}'

Find clinical trials

Search ClinicalTrials.gov by condition, intervention, sponsor, or location. See references/clinical-trials.md for filters and field details.

curl -sf "https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/studies?query.cond=obesity&query.intr=tirzepatide&filter.phase=PHASE3&pageSize=5&format=json" | jq '.studies // [] | .[] | {nctId: .protocolSection.identificationModule.nctId, title: .protocolSection.identificationModule.briefTitle, status: .protocolSection.statusModule.overallStatus}'

Get paper details

Look up by PMID, DOI, or title. Use Europe PMC (no auth) or Semantic Scholar (includes TLDR):

curl -sf "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:12345678&resultType=core&format=json" | jq '.resultList.result[0] | {title, authorString, pubYear, abstractText, doi}'

Search by author or institution

Use OpenAlex for author profiles, h-index, institution output, and funder analysis. See references/openalex.md.

OA_KEY="${OPENALEX_API_KEY:-$(security find-generic-password -s "openalex-api-key" -w 2>/dev/null || true)}"
curl -sf "https://api.openalex.org/authors?search=Daniel+Drucker&per_page=5&api_key=${OA_KEY}" | jq '.results // [] | .[] | {name: .display_name, works_count, cited_by_count, h_index: .summary_stats.h_index}'

Explore citation networks

Find what cites a paper (Europe PMC, no auth) or get influential citations (Semantic Scholar):

curl -sf "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/MED/12345678/citations?format=json&pageSize=10" | jq '.citationList.citation // [] | .[] | {title, authorString, pubYear}'

References

• references/europe-pmc.md -- article search, query fields, date filters, preprints
• references/clinical-trials.md -- trial search, status/phase filters, study details
• references/semantic-scholar.md -- TLDRs, citation graphs, batch lookup
• references/openalex.md -- cross-discipline search, authors, institutions, bibliometrics

API keys

Important

• Start with Europe PMC for broad searches -- no auth, covers PubMed + preprints.
• When asked about a drug, search both literature and clinical trials for completeness.
• Always present results with titles, authors, year, and links where available.