A to Z Drug Facts
A to Z Drug Facts includes more than 600 full drug monographs as well as abbreviated information on more than 5,000 drugs. Skyscape $$
A to Z Drug Facts includes more than 600 full drug monographs as well as abbreviated information on more than 5,000 drugs. Skyscape $$
Free. ACP/ASIM Clinical References provides clinical practice guidelines, Normal Lab Values from MKSAP 12, Normal Lab Values from MKSAP 12, and more.
The AIDSinfo site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides free guidelines for Pocket PC and Palm OS devices.
Free. The Antibiotic Guide is produced by Johns Hopkins University and provides concise information on the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Optimized for Palm OS devices.
AvantGo offers free subscriptions that deliver thousands of mobile websites to consumers on their PDAs and smartphones. Subscribers can choose from channels including those providing weather, sports, and travel information. The service allows users to sync any website with their device and may be used with either desktop or wireless Internet connections.
BioMed Central offers downloadable abstracts, as well as links to full research articles in your area of interest. Requires a free subscription to AvantGo's free software. For Palm OS, PocketPC, and Windows CE devices.
Free documents for downloading from the Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections.
ClinicalTrials.gov provides information from the National Institutes of Health on current information about clinical research studies. Searches include the ability to query by disease/condition or treatment location.
Need to find reviews or software downloads for your mobile device? Cnet's Download.com guide offers reviews and free downloads for over 3,900 mobile products for your Palm OS, Pocket PC, cell phone, and more.
The American College of Chest Physicians provides free evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for download to handheld devices.
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses includes over 800 Integrated Calculators for calculating dosages based on weight or body surface area. Skyscape $$
Dental Lexi-Drugs is a resource of over 7500 drug and supplemental products commonly encountered by dental professionals. For Palm OS and Pocket PC devices. $$
Dental Materials is freeware for the Palm OS designed to help dental professionals track their supplies and purchases of materials.
Diagnosaurus provides 1000+ differential diagnosis guides. Search by disease, symptom, or organ system. Free
Dirline is a directory of organizations and other resources in health and biomedicine from the National Library of Medicine.
Drug News Weekly offers weekly updates of drug news and information. Skyskape $$.
Created by the Duke University Medical Center Library, the EBM Toolkit includes reference information and guides for evaluating clinical articles. Free files downloadable via personal AvantGo accounts.
This EDUCAUSE constituent group provides a forum for discussing issues and challenges of PDA use in higher education.
ePSS is designed to help primary care clinicians identify and offer appropriate screening, counseling, and preventive medication services for their patients. The information is based on the current, evidence-based recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). For Palm OS and Pocket PC compatible devices.
Free. epiTool is a statistical calculator from Johns Hopkins for exposure and outcomes on PalmOS handheld computers.
ePocrates includes drug reference entries for over 3,300 prescription and over the counter products. Calculators, drug interaction, and formulary tools are also included. Free/$$
Expression Calculator 1.0 performs a variety of math and chemistry functions for students and professionals. $$
FirstConsult Handheld works with POCKETConsult to offer differential diagnosis and medical topics information for handheld devices. Medical calculators and Mosby's Drug Consult are also available. You will need to set up a free personal account. (VCU Libraries license)
The 5 Minute Clinical Consult for Dental Professionals is a basic reference for dental students and practitioners. It includes sections on Basics, Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Coding, and Miscellaneous). Skyscape $$
Handango provides an extensive array of products for handheld devices including dictionaries, ebooks, and GPS utilities.
Highwire Press offers HighWire Remote as as service by individual HighWire journals. The service provides tables of contents, abstracts, and selected journal articles for PalmOS and Pocket PCs.
JournalToGo offers journal abstracts from the National Library of Medicine and medical news from Reuters. After registration, users may download free updates to their Palm OS or PC handheld device.
Lexi-Comp provides drug reference and interactions information. Other products are also available. $$
Available free to VCU faculty, staff, and students. Pocket Consult provides access to daily news updates, weekly drug updates, and journal abstracts.
Medical Calculators offers freeware and shareware from the Tucows website.
Access MEDLINE/PubMed, read new journal abstracts, and search for relevant clinical trials. Free from the National Library of Medicine.
MedMath is a medical calculator for the Palm OS Platform created by Phillip Cheng, M.D. The program is designed to calculate common equations used in adult internal medicine.
MemoWare offers free downloads for handheld devices in a wide range of categories.
Mobile MerckMedicus offers downloads of The Merck Manual 17th Ed., the Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Reuters Medical News, MEDLINE Journal Abstracts, and MerckMedicus and MEDLINE Search capabilities. Users must register.
Available free for VCU faculty, staff, and students, MICROMEDEX's mobile version includes drug, alternative medicine, acute care, and toxicology information. Compatible with both Palm OS and Pocket PC. (VCU Libraries license)
mobileplanet offers an extensive offering of PDAs, mobile devices, and wireless products for retail purchase. Reviews of presentation hardware and software are also available.
Molecular Weight Calc is a free download from Tucows that allows you to calculate the mass of a molecular formula.
Mosby's Drug Reference is available free to VCU faculty, staff, and students through FIRSTConsult. Login to FIRSTConsult and set up a personal account in order to download the reference.
This NHLBI site offers free interactive tools and resources. Applications include a BMI calculator, asthma treatment guidelines, cholesterol management tool, and more.
The Nurse’s Pocket Drug Guide is available for purchase at http://www.usbmis.com. The guide provides nurses with selection and administration information for 1000 medications. Entries include data on drug interactions, laboratory test-findings, nursing implications, and patient education for each entry. The guide also provides data on common uses, mechanisms of action, pediatric and adult dosages, and side effects. Available for the Palm or PocketPC.
PalmGear.com showcases software for PalmOs devices.
Sponsored by Geek.com, PDAGeek provides reviews, commentaries, and tip for handheld devices.
The PDA Medicine site provides information about PDA usage in the VCU School of Medicine. The site includes information on hardware, software, and other resources.
Pharmacogenetics is a database of genetic variations that could affect drug disposition or sensitivity. Among the product's features are polymorphism monographs and an alphabetical listing of drugs by generic, brand name, and gene polymorphisms. Lexicomp $$
Provided by AHRQ, the Pneumonia Severity Index Calculator is a tool to assist clinicians in determining the appropriate care for newly diagnosed cases of community-acquired pneumonia. It helps to calculate the severity index of a pneumonia patient. For Palm OS and Pocket PC devices.
Available free to VCU faculty, staff, and students, MD Consult Mobile Edition/Pocket Consult provides access to daily news updates, weekly drug updates, and journal abstracts. From MD Consult, you may set up a personal account that allows you to set up downloads for you handheld device.
Pocket-Doc.com offers clinicians PalmOS downloads. Products include medication dose calculators and an ideal body weight calculator.
This PubMed search links to articles in the PubMed database related to handheld devices.
Free. PubMed via Pico was developed by researchers at the National Library of Medicine. PICO (which stands for Patient/Problem, Intervention, Compared to, and Outcome) is a concept used for structuring questions to locate clinical information.
This site gives overviews and reviews of toxicology and environmental health products. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
Shots provides current immunization information for Pocket PC and Palm OS devices. The downloads provide free updates from the The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Skyscape provides a variety of information products for health professionals to use on their PDAs and Smartphones. $$
This article by Alvin B. Lin, MD in Family Practice Management provides reviews and links to his top 15 PDA resources for family physicians. Published in July/August 2006.
Tucows offers numerous free and shareware downloads for Palm OS and other mobile devices. Medicine and health resources are available among the many choices.
The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference offers a free downloadable database from the Nutrient Data Laboratory. Information includes food reports and nutrient values.
VCU Libraries sponsored group open to faculty, staff, and students. Meetings are held quarterly to gather up-to-date information, listen to presentations, and share what is happening with PDAs at VCU. Meeting announcements will be posted on the PDA-SIG page and through the pda-sig listserv. To find out more about the listserv (and subscribe) check out the PDA-SIG Online Archive.
Wiley InterScience: Mobile Edition offers mobile versions of issues from Wiley Journals for Palm OS and Windows CE users. Requires free AvantGo subscrption to download journal tables of contents and abstracts. (VCU Libraries license)
WISER is a free toxicology information resource for emergency responders from the National Library of Medicine. Available for Palm and PocketPC.
Yahoo Wireless Medical Applications is a discussion group focused on emerging wireless technologies with particular focus on PDAs in clinical practice.
ZDNet offers free downloads for handheld devices, including the Pocket PC, Palm OS, and Psion-EPOC.