title: How to get the latest papers from pubmed
body: <p>This is a bit of a specific question, but somebody must have done this before. I would like to get the latest papers from pubmed. Not papers about a certain subjects, but all of them. I thought to query depending on modification date (mdat). I use biopython.py and my code looks like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>handle = Entrez.egquery(mindate='2015/01/10',maxdate='2017/02/19',datetype='mdat')
  results = Entrez.read(handle)
  for row in results["eGQueryResult"]:
          if row["DbName"]=="nuccore":
              print(row["Count"])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, this results in zero papers. If I add term='cancer' I get heaps of papers. So the query seems to need the term keyword... but I want all papers, not papers on a certain subjects. Any ideas how to do this?
  thanks
  carl</p>