Friday, August 6, 2010

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary for iPhone

This one should be of particular interest to the medical students and practitioners out there. Happened to notice it in the ‘What’s New’ section of the App Store this morning. And, well, it looks like quite a comprehensive and useful resource.
The Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary is a huge guide to ‘the essential language of medicine’. The application features over 35,000 entries, with information on both brand name and generic versions of drugs. All entries in the dictionary are hyperlinked for easy navigation and flow between words and entries. Plus, there’s a search history that will display the last 15 words you’ve looked up.
If you’re concerned about using it on-the-go, no worries. You can download and install the entire app right on your iPhone for reference any time. Once it is installed, that’s it. No need to download or access your network to look up entries or info!

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Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

This book provides reliable, unbiased and evaluated information on drugs and medicines used throughout the world. Each new drug licensed for use has its own potential benefits and adverse effects, and its own profile for dosage, administration and indications. Furthermore, manufacturers make regular changes to existing drug names and formulations, which can affect their interactions and safe usage. Health professionals require the correct answers and need to have confidence in the drugs information they use - but with medicines evolving at this rate, how can they be sure their knowledge is up to date? "Martindale" contains up to date information about more than 5,800 substances. Each and every entry is reviewed by our pharmaceutical editors to ensure health professionals have the most current data. Formulations change. Definitions change. Names change. But you can always trust "Martindale".

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Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy, 4th Edition

Physical chemistry is the basis of rational pharmaceutical formulation and processing, and is fundamental to understanding the complexities of drug delivery and drug absorption. This textbook presents the physiochemical principles useful to the modern pharmaceutical scientist and pharmacist.


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Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach--Joseph Dipiro

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Pharmacology--Gary C. Rosenfeld; David S. Loose

This concise review of medical pharmacology is designed for medical students, dental students, and others in the health care professions. It is intended primarily to help students prepare for licensing examinations such as the USMLE Step 1 or similar examinations. Each chapter presents specific drugs and discusses their general properties, mechanism of action, pharmacologic effects, therapeutic uses, and adverse effects. Drug lists and two-color tables and figures summarize essential drug information in all chapters. Clinically oriented USMLE-style review questions and answers with explanations follow each chapter. A comprehensive examination consisting of USMLE-style questions appears at the end of the book.

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Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease

One of the best-selling medical textbooks of all time, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease is the one book you likely purchased as a medical student that still provides answers now that you're in practice. The new PROFESSIONAL EDITION is the same "who's who" of pathology experts that delivers the most dependable, current, and complete coverage of today's essential pathology knowledge, now enhanced with PERKS DESIGNED SPECIALLY FOR YOU AS A PRACTITIONER. Masterful editing and a practical organization make learning or reinforcing every concept remarkably easy. Online access via EXPERT CONSULT allows you to download the full-color images, perform advanced searches withinRobbins and across your other Expert Consult titles, and gives you free access to a powerful differential diagnosis tool. The result remains the ideal source for an optimal understanding of pathology at its core.

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