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Free UPenn-Licensed PDA Software for the Health Sciences

The following licensed library resources are available for Penn clinicians, students and health professionals to download to their Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other handheld/wireless devices.

MicroMedEx : Thomson Clinical XPert

MicroMedEx brings the PDA-based diagnostic consult, medical calculator and drug and disease reference databases together in one powerful program.

From the web	Search Drug, Toxicology, Disease, and Labs databases
From your PDA	Disease database Drug database/interaction check Lab test guide Alternative medicine database Nearly one dozen medical calculators Set up and view custom alerts
Quick Link to MicroMedEx:	Authenticate, register, and download MicroMedEx

Unbound Medicine

Unbound Medicine delivers medical news, journal alerts, and MEDLINE literature searches to users' handhelds or wireless devices. In addition, Penn's license provides access to: Abstracts from MEDLINE journals (of your choice), Current Consult Medicine, and Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests.

From the web	Search and browse knowledge resources optimized for Web viewing Save, organize, and share information in a personal library Manage PDA subscriptions
From your PDA	Navigate content optimized for handheld devices View custom alerts Capture questions (and if wireless device) view summary and full-text results
Quick Links to Unbound Medicine:	Login and authenticate to access Unbound Medicine Download Unbound Medicine PDA software

Access Medicine

McGraw Hill's online resource providing complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals. Access Medicine is updated daily, and provides immediate access to authoritative and current medical data. The web version has full text, graphics, images and illustrations of the most recent editions of world-class medical references in internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacology, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, and patient care, and with daily content updates. In addition, Penn's license provides access to the Diagnosaurus diagnostic tool

From the web	Access full-text McGraw Hill medical references Read daily updates from Harrison's Online and Hurst's the Heart Search for up-to-date drug information Use Diagnosaurus diagnostic tool Review Practice Guidelines in Primary Care Review patient education information Search a variety of AccessMedicine products at once Manage saved searches to PDA
From your PDA	View summary and full-text results designed for small devices
Quick links to Access Medicine	Go to Access Medicine; search by topic or individual book. Download individual sections and topics by selecting "download to PDA" Download Diagnosaurus free

MD Consult

A service of Elsevier publishing, MDConsult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. POCKET Consult is available FREE with MD Consult and provides new content on handhelds each day and pathways back into MD Consult for additional content. It also has the ability to initiate searches and execute them after synchronizing with MD Consult. POCKET Consult is a single destination for critical, point-of-care material on PDAs, including:

From the web and your PDA	Daily health care news from MD Consult Weekly drug updates from MD Consult Mosby's Drug Consult 20 Medical calculators Download web content to your PDA Bookmark and access full-text journal articles.
Quick Link to MD Consult	Access MD Consult to set up personal account

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