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    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; this update means the FTP data will match the PubMed website and API.

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    May 30, 2025

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    March 3, 2025

    With hands-on exercises and quizzes, this tutorial will walk you through how to construct PubMed phrase searches.

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    February 28, 2025

    The Latest Literature section on the PubMed homepage has been removed and replaced with a PubMed Updates section that includes PubMed development updates and other PubMed-related highlights.