Archive for May, 2005

Concise Guide to Drug Interaction

Skyscape has released Concise Guide to Drug Interaction Principles for Medical Practice Cytochrome P450s, UGTs, P-Glycoproteins, 2nd Ed. on Palmgear. An understanding of drug interactions has become essential to the practice of medicine. Since publication of the first edition of this Concise Guide in 2001, our increasing pharmacopoeia – coupled with prolonged human life spans [...]

New USBMIS Titles

USBMIS has announced a couple of new PDA titles: Schwartz Principles of Surgery, PDA Edition Just the Facts in Emergency Medicine, PDA Edition Tags: USBMIS

New free Palm medical programs

Spotted in Ectopic Brain…. Dr. Beren of CZR Technologies has released 4 free medical applications: Abnormal Pap Smear Drugs in Pregnancy Depression Abnormal INR Tags: Drugs, Palm

Frank Shann’s Drugdoses for PDA

Sanjay, my paediatrician colleague who just got a Tungsten E2, is now getting into the thick of PDAs. He asked me about Frank Shann’s DrugDoses – a Pediatric drug reference which originates from Australia. I initially looked for it without success but Dobbs managed to locate it! Thanks Dobbs.. The website is DrugDoses for PDA [...]

Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

Skyscape has a new title out, Quick Reference to the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, Compendium 2004: Description: Contains Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) to all of the published APA Practice Guidelines. QRGs are created by abstracting the crucial information from the text of the full guideline, with greatest emphasis [...]

Clinical Neurology 2006

Pacific Primary Care have released Clinical Neurology 2006 Application Description: Topics include: evaluation of weakness, neuropathy, myasthenia gravis, demyelinating disease including MS and Guillain-Barre, carpal tunnel, cerebellar disorders, movement disorders (tics, Tourette, dystonia..), tremors, Parkinsons, cerebral palsy, ALS, seizures, strokes, headaches, coma, cervical spine problems, low back pain, radiculopathy, sciatica, myofacial pain, sacroiliac dysfunction, ankylosing [...]

Lifedrive: a great PDA for doctors?

The Palm PDA community is alive with anticipation of palmOne’s new “Lifedrive” expected to be announced sometime the second half of May. I think this will be the one medical PDA users will think of upgrading to (that is if you have been holding back), simply because it has 2 key features: dual wireless (the [...]

New Skyscape releases

Nurse Oncologists are precious. If you are an Oncologist and have a good team of nurses, then make sure you keep them. Perhaps reward them with the latest update from Skyscape : 2005 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook I haven’t used this but I guess if you are a trainee at the MGH, you might be [...]

Palm Pediatrics

A colleague of mine just got his first PDA – a palmOne Tungsten T|E2 which is one of palmOne’s newest PDAs and one which I think is value for money given the specifications. Well, it’s never too late! Right now he’s discovering what he has been missing but he has asked for more links and [...]

Depression PHQ-9 Beta

Statcoder has released Depression PHQ-9 Beta on Palmgear. Application Description: The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) The Patient Health Questionnaire contains a brief, 9-item, patient self-report depression assessment specifically developed for use in primary care (PHQ-9). The PHQ-9 has demonstrated usefulness as an assessment tool for the diagnosis of depression in primary care with acceptable reliability, [...]