OT: News Readers

[Sharon]

I am trying to develop pages for my pediatric and rare cancer website
(http://news.rare-cancer.org), which is still in the testing phases. I have
been searching the web for news and get some news delivered to my email box.
My need for news is a little different than most webmasters. I do not want
ALL cancer news. I want to be able to review it and see if it effects the
pediatric and adult rare cancer communities. And I don't want any info from
blogs. So, I think that most of the automatic feeds would not help me.

What I need is a good software package (hopefully free) that would allow me
to read news on my own computer. It would be REALLY nice if I could get
news delivered to me for certain keywords(ie. rare cancer, pediatric cancer,
childhood cancer, uncommon cancer). I do this through Google now, but they
seem to be hit and miss on delivery. If you know of any products that could
help me in this venture, I would be soooooooo grateful.

 

[Lois]

:
: I am trying to develop pages for my pediatric and rare cancer website
: (http://news.rare-cancer.org), which is still in the testing phases. I
have
: been searching the web for news and get some news delivered to my email
box.
: My need for news is a little different than most webmasters. I do not
want
: ALL cancer news. I want to be able to review it and see if it effects the
: pediatric and adult rare cancer communities. And I don't want any info
from
: blogs. So, I think that most of the automatic feeds would not help me.
:
: What I need is a good software package (hopefully free) that would allow
me
: to read news on my own computer. It would be REALLY nice if I could get
: news delivered to me for certain keywords(ie. rare cancer, pediatric
cancer,
: childhood cancer, uncommon cancer). I do this through Google now, but
they
: seem to be hit and miss on delivery. If you know of any products that
could
: help me in this venture, I would be soooooooo grateful.

This isn't a software package, but I wonder if it would give you what you're
looking for:

British Medical Journal Cite Track
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/help/citetrack/
You register to be notified by email whenever an article with a keyword you
specified is published. Authors and articles cited can also be included in
the search criteria.

"CiteTrack allows you to track topics and authors in any of the
participating journals [not just the BMJ]. You or your institution will need
a subscription to see the full text for articles you are alerted to in other
journals [but BMJ articles are free online]."

http://www.amedeo.com/
Receive an email alert whenever an article from a long list of medical
journals is published about the topic(s) you choose. The emails have short
summaries of each article along with links to abstracts.

Both services are free.

Lois

 

[Sharon]

This isn't a software package, but I wonder if it would give you what you're
looking for:
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/help/citetrack/
http://www.amedeo.com/

I didn't know either of these services was selective like this. Thanks
Lois. I still need a News Reader, but this helps also.

Take Care, Sharon

 

[Toby A Inkster]

It would be REALLY nice if I could get
news delivered to me for certain keywords(ie. rare cancer, pediatric cancer,
childhood cancer, uncommon cancer).

Google: PubMed

 

[Sharon]

"Toby A Inkster" wrote in message

Google: PubMed

I tried to do this. I used a site specific search on google for various
URL's of PubMed. It doesn't seem to work Can you take a minute out and
explain to me how to do this for the term retinoblastoma for example?
Thanks.

Take Care, Sharon

 

[Toby A Inkster]

"Toby A Inkster" wrote in message

I tried to do this. I used a site specific search on google for various
URL's of PubMed. It doesn't seem to work Can you take a minute out and
explain to me how to do this for the term retinoblastoma for example?
Thanks.

I tend to use this search form:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

Tapping in "retinoblastoma" returns 566 articles. You can narrow it down
by things like date. For example, try searching for:

retinoblastoma 1998/01:1998/04 [edat]

This will find all articles about retinoblastoma written between Jan and
April 1998. [edat] is not the only tag you can use to narrow down
searches: there are tonnes of them. [ti] is pretty useful. A full list is
here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html#SearchFieldDescriptionsandTags

PubMed isn't easy to learn, but once you've learnt the basics, it's pretty
easy to find stuff quickly.

 

[Sharon]

PubMed isn't easy to learn, but once you've learnt the basics, it's pretty
easy to find stuff quickly.

Thanks, I know how to use PubMed and I have used it for years. I thought
that maybe you had a way of using Google to search PubMed using specific
keywords. Sorry Toby for the misunderstanding.

Take Care, Sharon