Mobile PubMed Feeds

Most of the traffic I see run through this site is based around existing, single-source RSS feeds. The most popular of which is the PubMed Herbal RSS feed. Some folks have tapped into the multi-term taxonomy searching and RSS generation, but most users seem to keep things simple.

Any RSS feed coming out of this site can be read on pretty much any device that's RSS-savvy. The problem is that doing this usually requires a mobile RSS reader application, should you want to stay informed, and stay mobile. Flash and Java options appear to be cumbersome on most mobile devices, even if these technologies are supported.

So, using Feedburner's XML-HTML parsing toolset, I've added a couple of very simple html pages at mobile.herbalscienceresearch.com that display the latest abstracts and full text articles being indexed by PubMed.

The first is a slightly modified version of the above mentioned PubMed abstract feed. I've filtered out some of the more advanced phytochemistry results, yielding a slightly less reductionistic version of the original. There's also a new mobile version of the PubMed Herbal Full Text feed, providing a way to stay current with PubMed's full text articles of a herbal nature.

The pages have been formatted to render nicely for my shiny new iPhone, but should display well on any html-capable device with a viewport equivalent of 320px. Of course, they render in a browser nicely too, making them a nice option for non-mobile dial-up users who don't want to load images, javascript, etc.

Speaking of javascript, a cool search page is in the works. Meanwhile, you can view the mobile abstract feed at mobile.herbalscienceresearch.com and tap into the mobile full text feed here. mobile.herbalscienceresearch.com/fulltext.