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Monitor PubMed papers with Relaylit

35M+ biomedical citations from MEDLINE, life-science journals, and online books.

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What PubMed covers

PubMed is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free search engine for biomedical literature. It indexes MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf — more than 35 million citations across medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, and life sciences, updated daily.

If you are tracking clinical evidence, trials, reviews, or methodology papers, PubMed is the authoritative biomedical source. Relaylit searches PubMed on every digest run alongside five other databases so you never miss a relevant study because you were looking in the wrong index.

How Relaylit uses PubMed

Write your brief in plain language. Relaylit translates it into the correct PubMed syntax automatically, runs the search, then AI-ranks every hit from 0 to 100 against your context before emailing the top results. Preprints from arXiv, Crossref, and OpenAlex land in the same digest.

PubMed native alerts (MyNCBI) vs Relaylit

PubMed native alerts (MyNCBI)

Require a free MyNCBI account, trigger on exact PubMed query syntax, email raw results without ranking, and cap at 100 hits per alert. They don't search preprints, grey literature, or non-biomedical sources.

Relaylit

  • Plain-language brief, not query syntax
  • Searches PubMed + 5 more databases in one pass
  • Deduplicates across sources
  • AI relevance score 0–100 per paper
  • Weekly, biweekly, monthly — or on-demand

Example briefs for PubMed

Copy one, tweak it in your profile, get your first digest in minutes.

"Long-COVID cardiac sequelae in adults, mechanistic and clinical studies, last 90 days."

"GLP-1 receptor agonists in pediatric obesity, RCTs and meta-analyses only."

"Immunotherapy resistance in non-small-cell lung cancer, reviews and primary research from high-impact journals."

FAQ

Does Relaylit search all of PubMed?

Yes. Relaylit hits the live PubMed API on every run. Results include MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf entries — the same scope you get on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

How is this different from PubMed alerts?

PubMed alerts deliver raw chronological results and require exact PubMed query syntax. Relaylit accepts a plain-language brief, searches six databases in one pass, deduplicates, and ranks every paper 0–100 against your context before emailing you.

Can I filter by study type, date, or journal?

Yes. Describe the filter in your brief ("RCTs from the last 6 months, impact factor > 10, no case reports") and Relaylit applies it in the ranking and selection step.

Do you include preprints?

PubMed itself rarely indexes preprints. Relaylit's same digest also searches arXiv, Europe PMC's preprint feed, Crossref, and OpenAlex, so relevant preprints surface alongside the peer-reviewed literature.

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