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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
New iPhone App from KidsHealth.org Helps Identify Childhood Infections
URL: http://www.kidshealth.org
KidsHealth.org, the largest provider of online and video content about children's health and development, announced the launch of its new iPhone app for parents called Is It Contagious? The easy-to-use app puts KidsHealth's trusted health information and advice at parents' fingertips. Featuring 85-plus infections and illnesses, the app answers the most common questions parents ask, starting with "Is It Contagious?"
Is It Contagious? helps parents identify and assess the contagiousness, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of the most common childhood conditions. The app includes multiple features, including an A-Z conditions library, information on how to treat symptoms, and an image gallery of photo-realistic illustrations of infections as they appear in children.
"KidsHealth has always provided the most up-to-date doctor-approved children's health information on the web," said Dr. Neil Izenberg, founder and chief executive of Nemours' KidsHealth.org. "Is It Contagious? is the next step toward expanding our reach with parents both online and off." Is It Contagious? can be downloaded for free in the iTunes App Store...read more
Monday, September 20, 2010
Drugs.com Announces new Symptom Checker
Drugs.com (www.drugs.com), the leading online clinical drug information resource announced today that it has released a new interactive symptom checker.
The new symptom checker tool includes extensive information licensed from the prestigious and trusted medical information provider - Harvard Health Publications. The tool is an interactive decision guide intended to aid in the discovery of treatment options. Patients and caregivers can use a step-by-step interactive wizard to help identify the underlying cause of common symptoms.
The addition of the symptom checker complements the already extensive collection of free medical tools and services provided by Drugs.com. Existing tools include the pioneering and ever popular Pill Identifier, Drug Interactions Checker, Mednotes Personal Medication Records (PMR) and more...see the site now