medical-mcp vs everything

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	medical-mcp by JamesANZ	everything by modelcontextprotocol
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medical-mcp · Summary

Medical MCP provides trusted medical data from FDA, WHO, PubMed, RxNorm, and Google Scholar with no API keys required.

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

medical-mcp · Use cases

Medical researchers conducting literature reviews without paywalls
Healthcare developers building prototypes with real medical data
Clinicians referencing drug details and health statistics during patient consultations

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

medical-mcp · Install

Install in Cursor (Recommended)

Click the install link or use:

cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=medical-mcp&config=eyJtZWRpY2FsLW1jcCI6eyJjb21tYW5kIjoibnB4IiwiYXJncyI6WyIteSIsIm1lZGljYWwtbWNwIl19fQ==

Manual Installation

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/JamesANZ/medical-mcp.git
cd medical-mcp
npm install
npm run build

# Run server
npm start

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medical-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/medical-mcp/build/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

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