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  • PPC

  • BlackBerry
    • (Coming Soon)

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The Medical Letter

The Medical Letter Inc., a nonprofit organization founded in 1959, offers healthcare professionals objective, independent analyses of drugs, with special emphasis on new drugs.


The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics

The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is an independent, peer-reviewed, nonprofit publication that offers an unbiased, critical evaluation of drugs. With a special emphasis on new drugs, physicians and other healthcare professionals get reliable, up-to-the-minute information from the ease and convenience of their handheld device. It evaluates virtually all new drugs and reviews older drugs when important, new prescribing information becomes available.

The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics started publication in 1959 and is now part of the everyday practice of many physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, medical educators, residents and interns, as well as medical and pharmacy students. The Medical Letter is intended to meet the needs of the busy healthcare professional who wants unbiased, reliable and timely information on new drugs. Many of these professionals are aware that manufacturers and their representatives may exaggerate the therapeutic effects and understate the adverse effects of drugs, but have neither the time nor the resources to check the accuracy of the manufacturers' claims. If a new drug offers genuine advantages over older drugs, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics says so. If it offers no advantage, if its effectiveness is limited, or if it is too toxic or too expensive to justify its use, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics says so. If new information changes the picture, follow-up reports are published.

The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is updated bi-weekly with the most reliable drug information available. Simply auto synchronize your handheld device and receive the latest edition in an instant.

Benefits Include:

  • Independent, unbiased and reliable information you can trust
  • Bi-weekly AutoUpdates ensure reliable, up-to-date information
  • Chronological listing of issues allows you easy access to issues from 2001 to the present
  • Alphabetical listing of articles provides an organized look at the information you need
  • Keyword search to quickly find what you are looking for
  • Listing of tables allows you to quickly jump-to the table you want to reference
  • Notes section presents an organized way to store your own information
  • Bookmarks let you quickly return to frequently-accessed information



 

Includes a 12-Month Subscription of Automatic Updates:

A 12-month subscription entitles you to a total of 26 automatic content and application updates (about 2 updates/month). When the program is installed to your PDA, simply synchronize your PDA with your computer while connected to the internet to receive the latest updates. You can still use the application after the 12 month subscription expires, but you will no longer receive updates.

PC requirements:

- Windows 98/NT/2000/XP with 128MB Ram
- Free space on hard drive: 11.5MB for Palm / 51.5MB for PPC
- Palm Desktop 4.1.4 or greater (if using Palm)
- Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5 or greater (if using PocketPC)

Palm PDA requirements:

- Palm OS 3.5.3 or greater
- 5.2MB of available memory ( additional main memory may be needed when installed to memory card* )

PocketPC PDA requirements:

- Windows CE 3.0/Windows Mobile 2000 or greater
- Up to 13MB of available memory
- Only devices with touch screens are supported

*all VFS compliant memory cards and memory sticks are compatible