PubMed is the backbone of biomedical research in the U.S. That's not an exaggeration. It's housed under the NIH and is essentially our national library for public health and medical research ...

On March 1, the world's largest database for biomedical literature -- PubMed -- went down, immediately causing a global panic that the nation's essential publishing resource was yet another ...

PubMed, a free-to-use index of life-science articles, is maintained by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information. Credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Shutterstock.