David Rothman compares several free online consumer-oriented drug-interaction checkers to see how they handle a particular contraindicated combination. Read the article: Online Drug Interaction Checkers.
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HealthMap (http://www.healthmap.org/en) is a global disease alert mashup produced by the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology. Disease outbreaks reported by a variety of worldwide sources are plotted on a Google map. Click a pointer on the map to link to the original report.
David Rothman’s [...]
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David Rothman has taken the list of medical library websites published by M.D. Hardin (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hslibs.html) and built a Custom Search Engine to search them: http://davidrothman.net/medical-library-search-engine/.
Custom Google Search is available free, and even ad-free for nonprofits. I tried this out; take a look at my “EBP Site Search.” After refining it a bit [...]
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