MedicineNet Pocket Guide to Medications 2.2 description
Pocket Guide to Common Medications
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Introduction The MedicineNet's Pocket Guide to Common Medications gives quick and convenient access to important information on common medications to Windows Mobile® smartphone users.
Each monograph is written in lay yet informational language to provide helpful insights for patients taking medications. Combined with the hand-made selection of medications, its compact size, ease of use and affordable price this results in a must-have product for wide range of users, from patients to parents to even students.
The Guide is a
doctor-produced
informational database of 400+ monographs covering over 1,000 generic and
branded names of the most popular U.S. medications.
With just a few taps on
the screen of a PDA, users can perform keyword searches to quickly view drug
information written and edited by MedicineNet's pharmacists and physicians.
Topics covered in each drug monograph include:
Generic name
Brand name
Drug class and mechanism
Preparations
Storage
Prescribed for
Dosing
Drug interactions
Pregnancy and nursing mothers
Side effect
Dictionary
contents The product is brought to you in joined effort
between MedicineNet and
Beiks, two leading companies in the fields of
medical reference content and mobile reference applications respectively.
It consists of two parts: the
MedicineNet's Common Medications database itself and Beiks' BDicty dictionary
application, a common platform for mobile reference content.
Dictionary features:
Based on the mobile industry standard Beiks dictionary program BDicty Dictionary covering all major mobile platforms (Palm OS®, Windows Mobile® / Pocket PC®, Linux / Sharp Zaurus®) Expandable with other Beiks dictionaries and phrasebooks for Windows Smartphone® Optimized for Widows smartphones one-hand operation Dictionary browsing with fast word positioning Installable in the main handset memory or on a media card Excellent data compression Free software updates* Download availability online Built-in help documentation
*Beiks guarantees free updates
for problem fixes
and minor application enhancements; Beiks explicitly reserves the right for
releasing commercial updates upon introducing significant application changes
and no more than once per calendar year.