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Health Sciences Mobile Devices Resources

Resources for mobile devices in health sciences.

Pharmaceutical Resources

Free Micromedex Drug Information for Internet Subscribers (academic use only): A new version of the Micromedex app.

iOS l Android

Micromedex Drug Interactions: Comprehensive drug interactions reference.

iOS l Android

Natural Standard: Evidence-based information about complementary & alternative therapies for download to your device after registration. 

iOS l Android

Daily Med: Provides access to over 20,000 structured product labels (SPL) from the Food and Drug Administration. 

Mobile-friendly website

Epocrates Rx: Drug reference for download to your mobile device. Medical students currently have access to a subscription to Epocrates Essentials free via the Medical School. 

iOS

FDAble: Search FDA databases for adverse events, drug safety signals, medical device adverse events, & vaccine adverse events.

Mobile-friendly website

LactMed: Information on drugs and breastfeeding from the National Library of Medicine.

iOS l Android

LexiComp:  If you need to use the app for work, please go to the Clinical Homepage to access Michigan Medicine's subscription. Their LexiComp landing page has it listed under the "Additional Resources" box at bottom of page

 

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Drug Information Portal: Covers over 32,000 drugs & provides descriptions, drug names, pharmaceutical categories, & structural diagrams, with information links to 19 other resources, including NLM PubMed, NLM LactMed, & Drugs@FDA.

Mobile-friendly website

Pharmacy Apps from the National Library of Medicine: RxNav is a browser for several drug information sources, including RxClass, RxNorm, RxTerms, & NDF-RT that let you search for drugs in a variety of ways.

Mobile-friendly website

 

Science/Laboratory Resources

Bio Tools: Provides calculation modules and quick reference sections for designing & executing experiments involving PCR & Q-PCR.

iOS

ChemSpider: Search across a database of almost 25 million chemical entities based on chemical name & retrieve a list of intrinsic properties, predicted properties, associated identifiers, with links to Wikipedia (if available) & a Google-based search for the chemical based, for now, on the associated InChlKey.

iOS l Android

GenomePad: Provides customizable searches in biological species & maps from genome assembly or specific chromosomal positions. Query any & all genomes present at the UCSC site. 

iOS

GLAD4U (Gene List Automatically Derived For You)

Mobile-friendly website

 

RCSB PDBMobile: Mobile access to the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Database (PDB). 

iOS l Android