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It can be difficult to keep track of all the latest evidence-based guidelines. Some commercial tools like InfoRetriever (www.infopoems.com) and Clinical Evidence (www.unboundmedicine.com) do a good job, and are worth trying. But there are also a variety of guidelines in … Continue reading →

Today’s physicians are often faced with patients taking multiple “natural” supplements, and the need for information to make educated decisions about their effects or interactions with other drugs. DrDrugs includes extensive information about natural product/alternative medicines, while neither LexiDrugs nor … Continue reading →

MedRules is a popular, free EBM tool featuring useful clinical prediction rules taken from the medical literature, ranging acute sinusitis to UTI diagnosis, with additional rules being released occasionally. It requires about 330 KB of memory (including its required libraries), … Continue reading →

Our recommendation for most authoritative infectious diseases reference is the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy ( www.sanfordguide.com ). The PDA version has the exact same content as the familiar print one and includes ambulatory, inpatient, adult and pediatric information. It … Continue reading →

There are a variety of medical dictionaries available for the Palm, ranging from consumer-class references to full PDA versions of professional titles. At the top of our list for medical education purposes is the Stedman’s Concise Medical Dictionary, 4th Edition, … Continue reading →

To start with, we would recommend reading the article entitled Clinical calculators for hand-held computers, written by Dr. Stewart Cameron (from Dalhousie’s Department of Family Medicine), in Canadian Family Physician magazine (September 2003). MedCalc MedMath Of the hundreds of medical … Continue reading →

We have two primary recommendations in this area, the first (DrDrugs) a lower-priced option suitable for undergraduate medical students or those limited to 8MB or 16MB of memory, and the second (LexiDrugs) a higher-priced but also more powerful option for … Continue reading →

This latest edition (16th) of Harrison’s Manual of Medicine is published by McGraw-Hill, and is based on software from Unbound Medicine (who also support high-end references like the BMJ and Ovid). The Faculty of Medicine purchases licenses for all Undergraduate … Continue reading →

here is a huge and rapidly growing selection of medically related PDA software available, which makes the selection of PDA hardware seem easy by comparison! To simplify things, rather than listing all of the available software we have instead done … Continue reading →

In this version of this website we have decided to stop giving specific hardware recommendations, because, due to the rapid rate of change in the world of handhelds, this is always the first section to become obsolete, and the hardest … Continue reading →