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Available Platforms:
  • Palm
  • PPC

  • BlackBerry
    • (Coming Soon)

About
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.

Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter

Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter is an independent, peer-reviewed, nonprofit publication that offers review articles of drug classes for treatment of common disorders and is now available for Palm, Pocket PC handhelds. Updated monthly by auto-synchronizing your PDA device, it carries no advertising and is supported entirely by subscription fees.
Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter contains recommendations for first choice and alternative drugs with assessments of the drugs' effectiveness, cost and safety. It is intended specifically to meet the needs of busy healthcare professionals who want unbiased, reliable information to help them keep up with the treatments of choice for common disorders. Treatment Guidelines helps healthcare professionals make the best decisions for the patient -- without the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.

Topics Include:

  • diabetes
  • asthma
  • postmenopausal osteoporosis
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • hypertension
  • insomnia
  • epilepsy
  • tobacco dependence
  • psychiatric disorders
  • lipid disorders
  • pneumonia
  • allergic disorders
  • drugs and surgery for weight loss
  • HIV infection
  • bacterial infections
  • peptic ulcers
  • pain
  • Parkinson's disease
  • advice for travelers
  • migraine
  • contraceptives
  • STDs
  • and more...

The editorial process used for both publications relies on a consensus of experts to develop prescribing recommendations that are completely independent of the pharmaceutical industry. Treatment Guidelines is, therefore, a crucial resource for members of the healthcare community to consult when confronted by the advertisements and sales representatives of the industry.

Benefits Include:

  • Independent, unbiased and reliable information you can trust
  • Montly AutoUpdates ensure reliable, up-to-date information
  • Chronological listing of issues allows you easy access previous articles
  • 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
  • Palm, Pocket PC, and BlackBerry (coming soon) compatibility



 

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: 11MB for Palm / 45MB 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
- 3.8MB 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 10.2MB of available memory
- Only devices with touch screens are supported

*all VFS compliant memory cards and memory sticks are compatible