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Make Your Own “Medical Journal” with iGoogle Personalized Page

June 29th, 2006

Google.com/IG or iGoogle personalized page is also an RSS aggregator. You can use it to collect the feeds of your favorite journals in one easy-to-scan page. A free Google account is required.

As you can see in the screenshots below, I combined the feeds of NEJM, JAMA, Archives, BMJ, Clinical Evidence and AAFP on Google.com/IG. TheLancet does not offer a RSS feed yet.

If you want to make your journal page more interactive, you can use the Google Reader module to add audio and video by subscribing to JAMA audio summary, Johns Hopkins podcast and the Cleveland Clinic Health Edge video podcast. This way you have the text of the journals plus audio and video. The only thing missing is a text-to-speech module, and… it looks like the video does not play from the page itself yet. Considering that Google is offering

href="http://desktop.google.com/contest.html">$ 5,000 for the best designed “gadget”, something interesting should be on the way soon.

Figure 1. Click “Add Content” in the top left corner to add RSS feeds to your personalized iGoogle page.

Figure 2. Use the search box to find RSS feeds for medical journals.

Figure 3. Entering just “NEJM” in the search box is enough to find the RSS feed of the New England Journal Medicine and a few blogs which wrote about it, including this one. Repeat the search for “BMJ” and “JAMA” to find the feeds of the corresponding journals.