Research abstracts are short summaries of medical research published in various medical journals around the world. They are very useful to patients and their physicians in finding new experimental treatments because the results of clinical trials will be published in a journal long before the results become common knowledge to the medical community at large.

Extracting information useful to patients from the enormous amount of published data used to be a daunting task because the majority of journal articles report the results of laboratory research of no immediate practical value to patients. To help separate the useful from the arcane, the MPIP has designed a "front-end" filter to the National Library of Medicine database (PubMed) that only returns information useful to patients in making treatment decisions.

Because it uses the actual PubMed database, the search results always contain the latest available information, the MPIP database can never become stale. If you are interested in getting see the latest published abstracts click on "Latest Abstracts" on the navigation bar.

The filter can be turned of by checking the "Disable Filter" check box

The entire MedPub database can be accessed at anytime by clicking on the "Search PubMed" link on the navbar.