# Medical MCP (MCP server)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/JamesANZ/medical-mcp |
| GitHub stars | 118 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | npm: medical-mcp |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | yes |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Cloud & DevOps |
| Latest release | none |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

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

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```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)

```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 2026-10-07.

## Environment variables

- `NCBI_API_KEY` (secret): Shown in the README's example configuration.

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