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MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is the right source when you need plain-language disease or symptom context alongside structured biomedical identifiers. In BioMCP, MedlinePlus supplements biomcp discover for disease and symptom-oriented prompts; it is suppressed for gene, drug, pathway, and other flows where consumer-health prose would add noise.

MedlinePlus also backs the opt-in get disease <name_or_id> clinical_features section. That section surfaces reviewed clinical-summary rows for configured diseases and can fall back to embedded reviewed fixtures when live MedlinePlus search is unavailable.

What BioMCP exposes

Command What BioMCP gets from this source Integration note
biomcp discover <query> Plain-language context for disease and symptom queries Supplemental only; OLS4 remains the required structured-concept backbone
get disease <name_or_id> clinical_features MedlinePlus clinical-summary feature rows Opt-in disease section that keeps consumer-health context out of default disease cards

Example commands

biomcp discover "symptoms of Marfan syndrome"

Returns structured discover follow-ups with supplemental MedlinePlus plain-language context when the query resolves as a disease or symptom flow.

biomcp get disease "uterine leiomyoma" clinical_features

Fetches the opt-in MedlinePlus-backed clinical-features section for a configured disease.

biomcp get disease MONDO:0007947 clinical_features

Uses a resolved disease identifier while keeping the MedlinePlus clinical-summary section explicit.

API access

No BioMCP API key required. BioMCP uses the public MedlinePlus Search endpoint for supplemental discover context and disease clinical-feature summaries, with embedded reviewed fixtures as the offline fallback for configured diseases.

Official source

MedlinePlus is the official NLM consumer-health site. BioMCP uses the public MedlinePlus Search endpoint for the surfaces described here.