# Ask a medical question.
Luma answers, then checks every sentence against published research. Anything
it cannot back up, it says so.
## How it works
1. Type a medical question, or paste an answer you want checked. You can also
attach a PDF, document, image, or text file, or drop one anywhere on the page.
2. Luma reads the question, searches PubMed, and checks each sentence of its
answer against the paper it cites.
3. The answer reads as prose. Each sentence carries a numbered source, and the
sources are listed below it with a link to the PubMed record and the passage
that supports the sentence.
4. A sentence that no published study backs is marked "not verified" and
explained in plain words at the end of the answer.
Please leave out patient names and details. Luma is a research prototype. We
are applying for NIH funding and are not yet SOC 2 or HIPAA compliant, so
nothing you type here is protected the way a clinical system would be. No
patient information, no personal details, nothing confidential.
## Compare with ChatGPT
After an answer, you can ask to see what ChatGPT says to the same question.
This is opt-in, so a plain run makes no third-party call. ChatGPT answers on
its own, and Luma then checks every paper it cites: it either checks out, is a
real paper that does not say this, or is no such paper at all. An answer that
cites no sources cannot be checked.
## Example questions
- Do ACE inhibitors cause a dry cough, and what else is first-line for heart
failure?
- Is spironolactone recommended in heart failure, and what monitoring does it
need?
- Does trastuzumab improve survival in HER2-positive breast cancer, and what is
the cardiac risk?
- Is tPA effective within 4.5 hours of a stroke, and what is the main risk?
- Do disease-modifying therapies reduce relapses in multiple sclerosis?
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