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PubMed New & Noteworthy Announcements
Announcements highlighting recent enhancements and changes to the PubMed, Journals, and MeSH databases.
- FTP Improvements Available for Testing June 6, 2025Starting 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, 2025On 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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, 2024Searches in All Fields [all] for terms matching a Pharmacological Action now follow PubMed syntax rules for Automatic Term Mapping (ATM).
- Filters Interface Improvements October 22, 2024The PubMed filters interface on the search results page has been updated to provide a more intuitive, user-friendly experience.
- Related Citation Links in Search Results June 17, 2024The four PubMed comment correction types labeled in search results now also include a link to the related citation in the summary display: Update in, Retraction in, Retracted and republished in, Corrected and republished in.
- Wildcard Search Improvements June 3, 2024PubMed search syntax now supports expanded use of the asterisk (*) wildcard character. Previously, a wildcard could only be used for truncation at the end of a term or phrase to search for alternate endings. With this update, wildcards can be used in the middle of a term or phrase, and multiple wildcards can be used in the same term or phrase.
- Usability improvement: Links now underlined on mouseover February 12, 2024Links on PubMed are now underlined on mouseover. This update is based on recommendations from the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS).
- PubMed 2024 Baseline Released and DTD updated December 20, 2023The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released the 2024 production year PubMed Baseline files and the first set of 2024 PubMed Update files have been posted. Regular daily updates have resumed.The updated 2024 PubMed DTD is available here.