PubMed New and Noteworthy

PubMed New and Noteworthy
Enhancements to the PubMed, Journals, and MeSH databases
Brief announcements highlighting recent enhancements and changes to the PubMed and MeSH databases.

• FTP Improvements Available for Testing June 6, 2025
  ​Starting with the annual baseline release in December 2025, the content of PubMed data distributed via FTP will be generated using the same technology as the PubMed website and E-utilities API.To help users prepare for this transition, a test FTP site is available now with daily update files generated by the new process.
• Changes to Email Feature May 30, 2025
  On or after July 28​, PubMed will reintroduce the ability to customize subject lines and body text when emailing search results or citations. With this update, the email feature will also require My NCBI login, and PubMed emails will only be sent to the email address associated with the My NCBI account.  
• Latest Literature on PubMed homepage will be replaced with PubMed Updates March 5, 2025
  The Latest Literature section on the PubMed homepage will be removed and replaced with a PubMed Updates section on or after March 31, 2025. The new section will include PubMed development updates and other PubMed-related highlights.​
• PubMed 2025 Baseline Released January 14, 2025
  ​The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released the 2025 production year PubMed baseline files.​ Please refer to the linked article for more information. ​
• Pharmacological Action Term Mapping December 2, 2024
  ​Searches in All Fields [all] for terms matching a Pharmacological Action now follow PubMed syntax rules for Automatic Term Mapping (ATM).​