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Top 15 Free Android Medical apps for Medical Students and Doctors

1. Medscape

One of the most anticipated apps to hit Android, Health care professionals had been waiting eagerly for this comprehensive medical application. Medscape was just recently released on the Android Market and has already become the number one downloaded medical app for the Android platform.

The amount of free content provided by Medscape is absolutely mind numbing and seems to continuously grow with each update. 7,000+ drug references, 3,500+ disease clinical references, 2,500+ clinical images and procedure videos, robust drug interaction tool checker, CME activities, and more.

2. Epocrates

As we reviewed in February, the free version of Epocrates is considered by many to be an essential drug reference. Useful and easy-to-learn features like the pill identifier, several medical calculators, and drug interaction checker make Epocrates a favorite of clinicians and students alike.Of note, Epocrates recently announced support for the premium versions of Epocrates on the Android platform.

As with other popular and new Android apps, Epocrates is not available for Android users with older operating systems (version 1.5 or older).

3. Skyscape

This app makes our top ten list for two major reasons: First, until recently Skyscape has been the only high-quality all-in-one type app for Android. Many of the quality android medical apps we have reviewed, such as the Red Book and Netter’s Anatomy have worked within Skyscape’s universal app. Second, it’s available on all Android operating system versions.

By all-in-one, we essentially mean that Skyscape offers health care professionals and students access to a robust selection of medical calculators (Archimedes), periodically updated medical news alerts, select practice guidelines, access to paid textbooks (like Netter‘s), and solid drug reference (RxDrugs) and disease monographs (Outlines in Clinical Medicine).

4. Evernote

Evernote is a great organization tool that can be especially useful for health care professionals and students. There are not many quality PDF organization apps on the Android Marketplace, and Evernote shines above most of the paid apps. Evernote allows you to access and read your PDF documents on the go. Other tools, such as notes and image capture allow you to record atypical disease pathology encountered while practicing for your own reference — possibly even a future presentation.

5. Calculate by QxMD

Calculate by QxMD scores major points (and lands in our top 10) for its aesthetically appealing design and smooth user interface. The collection of medical calculators contained in this android app is wide enough in scope to satisfy most generalists and students.

6. MedPage Today

We find that a well-designed medical news app can be the cure for an email inbox full of unread daily news headlines. MedPage Today is both simple and comprehensive in delivering medical news to your mobile device that is relevant to your particular subspecialty interest. Much of the content is partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine — giving a reassuring sense of legitimacy to the news articles provided. Along with reading articles, CME activities are also presented in text, video, and audio form.
After specifying your interests and preferences, medical news stories from the MedPage Today web site are delivered to the “My News” app screen. Each category menu opens to reveal recent medical news stories in text and occasionally audio formats. It’s simple, clean, fast, and free.

7. Harvard School of Public Health

The Harvard School of Public Health News app is surprisingly functional and useful. We say surprisingly because Harvard isn’t the first school to make an application to push their content, but they stand out amongst their peers for the simplicity, overall user interface, and solid functionality delivered by the application.

8. Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR)

The Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR) claims to be “The most widely used drug reference by clinicians.” For the many clinicians who use MPR, this app is a great mobile substitute.
Drugs are classified by treatment category, similar to the print version. Prescribing notes and drug monographs outline useful information for clinical practice.

9. Standard Dictations

The tedious work of internship is both challenging and overwhelming. For those of us who are soon-to-be interns an app like Standard Dictations is a welcomed anxiolytic.
This app has basic templates to read while dictating. Everything from admission orders to discharge summaries, along with numerous exams, procedures, and several different types of H&P formats for different health care settings. Of note, many EMRs offer similar templates. So residents who work with a robust EMR may not have as much need for this app.

10. USPSTF ePSS (electronic preventive services selector)

This is a public health tool provided to health care professionals by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) — the nation’s lead federal agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety.

As you can see from the included pictures, the application allows you to input your patient’s age, along with other key demographic information, and gives you the basic screening and public health information pertinent to your patient. Much of the content is based on the recommendations made by the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF). The app also provides great links to screening calculators and reference tools available on the web.

11. PubMed Mobile

This app is a quick and easy access to PubMed on a mobile device. Those who use PubMed regularly can put this app to good use. As we reviewed before, users can search for and view abstracts on a mobile device. After tagging articles of interest, the user can send article links via email or share articles through social networks. Features added to PubMed Mobile since our review include links to PubMed articles in a browser, and direct links to PubMed Central “PMC Free Articles.”

12. Ob (Pregnancy) Wheel

Some may call an OB Wheel app too specialty specific to make it into a Top 15 list for all health care providers. Nonetheless, many clinicians would find this app useful, such as those working in primary care, the emergency department, and of course, obstetrics. Medical students and residents would find utility with this app when rotating through OB/GYN or the emergency department. Curious mothers and fathers could also put the app to use.

Numerous adjustable preferences and settings, ultrasound exam dating, and dating ordered patient lists make Ob (Pregnancy) Wheel the best among several free and paid OB wheels available on the Android Market.

13. Eponyms

Eponyms are the bane of many students and providers health care existence. Eponyms are medical phrases or pathologies that are named after key people, such as “Beck’s Triad”. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of them, and it’s near impossible to keep them all straight.

This app contains over 1,700 of the most popular Eponyms and is a great resource to both help refresh your knowledge, and to also use as a reference material.



14. Speed Anatomy

If you are looking for a fun, quick-hitting anatomy quiz – or you are interested in learning anatomy in four different languages – then Speed Anatomy is your best bet among free anatomy apps. Unlike Netter’s Anatomy, Speed Anatomy is not an exhaustive atlas of human anatomy, and the drawings are unimpressive compared to Netters. It is, however, a great tool for students who are about to take their next anatomy practical exam. The faster and more accurately you identify structures, the more points you get.

15. Calorie Counter by FatSecret

This is a great application to use when counseling patients about diet and exercise. The application is extremely powerful, able to look up almost any type of food category – fast foods, grocery store foods, and prepared foods. You can even scan barcodes with your camera and the app can identify the type of food along with allocating the appropriate calories.

Soldiers Flee as Boko Haram Takes Over Nigerian Military Base

The militant Boko Haram sect has seized a town and key multinational military base in north-eastern Nigeria, the BBC reports.

Maina Maaji Lawan, senator for Borno North, said troops had abandoned the base in the town of Baga after it was attacked on Saturday. 

Civilians had run "helter skelter" - "some into the forest, some into the desert," he said.

Residents of Baga, who fled by boat to neighbouring Chad, said many people had been killed and the town set ablaze.

Baga, scene of a Nigerian army massacre in 2013, was the last town in the Borno North area under government control.

We Are Not In Possession Of Buhari's Original Credentials - Nigerian Army

The Nigeria Army has said that they do not keep the certificates of any serving or retired officer or soldier, Vanguard has reported.

 

This is coming a few days after Buhari, who is the presidential candidate of the opposition APC, explained in an affidavit submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that all his academic credentials were with the Military Board, 

 

Vanguard quoted a military source who said "The Army can not keep anybody’s original certificate because it is the personal property of the owner. Such original certificates were only needed at the point of entry into the service."

 

According to the source, the Military only kept photocopies of credentials of officers and soldiers in their personal files that were in the military secretary’s office.

 

“The original certificate of any officer or soldier is only needed at the point of entry into the service either as a cadet officer entering the Nigerian Defence Academy, or the recruitment officers when interviewing recruits to be sent to the depot for training. That is so, because they are needed to verify what were in the photocopies supplied by them or from the necessary examining bodies.”

 

The source, according to Vanguard , further stated that anybody claiming that his original certificates were with the Military Secretary (Army), had ‘’ulterior motive(s) or something he or she cannot explain.’’

 

Source: Vanguard  

Nigeria: Buhari is Not The Saviour, He's Responsible For Terrorism - Fasehun

Dr. Frederick Fasehun, National Chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN oon Thursday said that Muhammadu Buhari, Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC is not the saviour; THE HERALD Reports. 

Fasehun made the comment while speaking to journalists on Thursday at Okota, Lagos State. 

He said, General Buhari has often been painted as the Messiah Nigerians have been waiting for. This is turning truth and logic on the head.

''For the avoidance of doubt, General Muhammadu Buhari is not the saviour Nigeria has been waiting for. he truth is that under Buhari’s holier-than-thou facade lurks a smelly throat of evil

''The problem of Nigeria is not our politics but the fact that we forget too soon. We feel the pain of our flagellation just at the time we are being floored.

''Afterward, we go about as if nothing has happened in our history. Today, Nigeria staggers under a weight of insurgency and terrorism that is very alien to our ethnic and national character.

''And we have some do-or-die politicians to thank for this.

''Insurgency and terrorism descended on Nigerians in the wake of the 2011 elections, after politicians of a particular coloration swore to make the country ‘ungovernable’ should they lose the polls.

''When Nigerians massively rejected these politicians at the polls, these bad losers made good their threats and unleashed the dogs of war through the North-Eastern part of the country. Since then, Nigeria has become one massive killing field with an internally-displaced population of over three million.

''Shall we cow before those who have brought this tragic and catastrophic atmosphere upon us and reward them with the presidency?''. 


#Buhari #APC #Fasehun

ISIS fighters 'have contracted Ebola'

The World Health Organisation is investigating reports that ISIS militants have been showing up at an Iraqi hospital with Ebola.

According to three media outlets an undisclosed number of militants displaying signs of the disease attended a hospital in the ISIS-held city of Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad.

While the reports, from Kurdish and pro-Iraqi sources, remain unconfirmed, WHO spokesman Christy Feig said the group are trying to reach out to officials in ISIS-held areas to offer help.

UN workers are currently banned from entering ISIS-controlled areas in both Iraq and Syria so it is unlikely an operation in the area could be carried out.Mosul has been under control of ISIS since June 2014 and over the past few weeks militants have reportedly executed more than a dozen doctors for refusing to treat injured fighters. 

According to a report in Iraq's pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, the disease was brought to Mosul by 'terrorists' arriving 'from several countries' and Africa.

Culled from Mailonline

Nigeria : INEC Explains Why Ballot Paper Must Be Printed Abroad

Ahead of the 2015 polls,the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says its decision to print some ballot papers abroad is to protect the integrity of the electoral process.

The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja.

Idowu also denied the allegation that the commission spent 75 million dollars to print the 2015 presidential ballot papers in Europe, saying ''I am not aware of that.’’

He, however, said it was true that some of the ballot papers for the 2015 polls were being printed locally while others were being done outside the country.

''This is a country where some elections are extremely contentious. Some elections are so contentious that however it goes, people will complain from partisan perspective and the commission is mindful of that.

''I can assure you that a large portion of the materials we are using, both sensitive and non-sensitive, are also being printed locally and some part of it are being printed abroad. They are printed abroad in the interest of the country, for the integrity of the election and the acceptability of the procedure.

''All these have been taken into consideration,’’ he said.

Idowu also said that INEC took into consideration the economic situation of the country, security and capacity in taking decisions on the printing of the ballot papers.

''We are talking of about five elections and for each of the election, we are talking of between 70 and 75 million ballot papers. When you talk about capacity, which printer will deliver that required number within a window at which this must be done?

''It is not that we have all the time in the world. We only begin to print when nomination by political parties is concluded. That is the time frame that the law allows for. In that short time window, there is no printer in Nigeria that can deliver on that and that is why it has to be spread,’’ Idowu said.

He said printing some of the ballot papers abroad was also important to prevent arguments over bias in the printing process.

''That is why typically the less contentious ones are printed locally but the contentious ones are out sourced. If you print here, you will not get a better cost because the people that are doing the printing abroad already have the experience, infrastructure and technology in place,’’ he said.

Ahead of the 2015 polls,the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says its decision to print some ballot papers abroad is to protect the integrity of the electoral process.

The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja.

Idowu also denied the allegation that the commission spent 75 million dollars to print the 2015 presidential ballot papers in Europe, saying ''I am not aware of that.’’

He, however, said it was true that some of the ballot papers for the 2015 polls were being printed locally while others were being done outside the country.

''This is a country where some elections are extremely contentious. Some elections are so contentious that however it goes, people will complain from partisan perspective and the commission is mindful of that.

''I can assure you that a large portion of the materials we are using, both sensitive and non-sensitive, are also being printed locally and some part of it are being printed abroad. They are printed abroad in the interest of the country, for the integrity of the election and the acceptability of the procedure.

''All these have been taken into consideration,’’ he said.

Idowu also said that INEC took into consideration the economic situation of the country, security and capacity in taking decisions on the printing of the ballot papers.

''We are talking of about five elections and for each of the election, we are talking of between 70 and 75 million ballot papers. When you talk about capacity, which printer will deliver that required number within a window at which this must be done?

''It is not that we have all the time in the world. We only begin to print when nomination by political parties is concluded. That is the time frame that the law allows for. In that short time window, there is no printer in Nigeria that can deliver on that and that is why it has to be spread,’’ Idowu said.

He said printing some of the ballot papers abroad was also important to prevent arguments over bias in the printing process.

''That is why typically the less contentious ones are printed locally but the contentious ones are out sourced. If you print here, you will not get a better cost because the people that are doing the printing abroad already have the experience, infrastructure and technology in place,’’ he said.