Research Guides: Biomedical Engineering: PubMed Search

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Provides a search engine and index to citations and abstracts for life sciences and biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. Other databases available include the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus of terminology, and numerous nucleic acid and protein sequence libraries. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central (public access) and external databases to which CWRU subscribes.

For a basic keyword search, type the word(s) into the search box, and click Search. PubMed will suggest phrases that complete your entry or that are related to the words you're entering.
Use the filters on the left sidebar to narrow down your results by specifying different categories such as language, type of article, age, gender, etc
if you have a PMID (PubMed ID) or PMCID (PubMed Central ID) just enter that number in the PubMed search box.
Look for the Full Text Links in the top right of the abstract page.