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Medical MCP

Medical MCP is an MCP server that provides comprehensive medical information by querying multiple authoritative medical APIs including FDA, WHO, PubMed, Google Scholar, and RxNorm. It has 118 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y medical-mcp.

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Install Medical MCP

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medical-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "medical-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env NCBI_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio medical-mcp -- npx -y medical-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medical-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "medical-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "ncbi_api_key",
      "description": "NCBI_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "medical-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "medical-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "${input:ncbi_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
NCBI_API_KEYsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About Medical MCP

Bring trusted medical data directly into your AI workflow. A local server for private, free access to FDA, WHO, PubMed, RxNorm, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar. No API keys. No data leaks.

  • fda
  • llms
  • mcp-server
  • pubmed
  • rxnorm
  • who
  • google-scholar
  • docker

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How do I install the Medical MCP MCP server?

Add the command npx -y medical-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Medical MCP free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (NCBI_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Medical MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 7, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.