iPhone Medical News

MedWatcher Keeps You Up-to-Date With Drug Safety Reports

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed an iPhone application that keeps you up-to-date with drug safety reports and allows you to submit any side effects directly to the FDA. The app, called MedWatcher can keep a list of medications for which you receive both official FDA alerts and news from other channels. Users can report side effects straight from the app and view other submitted reports. The researchers hope to lower the barrier to reporting side effects, increasing the participation in safety surveillance. Reports of serious adverse events are reviewed by members of the Children's Computational Epidemiology Group and then submitted to the FDA. The app was developed using technology from the Outbreaks Near Me app, which we covered one year ago.

Press release: New iPhone app, "MedWatcher," to support real-time drug safety surveillance...

Homepage: MedWatcher

iTunes link: MedWatcher: Drug Safety Reporting...

Vree iPhone App for Type 2 Diabetics

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:00 AM PDT

Merck has released its own diabetes manager app for the iPhone platform. It features glucose, activity, nutrition and medication trackers, and progress charts to help keep a healthy regimen.

Vree for Diabetes is a comprehensive set of easy-to-use tools developed to help people with type 2 diabetes track their blood sugar, medications, nutritional intake and activity level, with helpful features such as progress charts and live reminders. Unlike other health applications, Vree for Diabetes allows patients to conveniently store a wide variety of data in one place with 24-hour, on-the-go accessibility. The application can help people reach weight loss goals by offering lessons on advanced nutrition and exercise strategies, as well as diabetes basics, becoming more active and eating a healthier diet. It also has a tool people with diabetes can use to create reports, email and discuss them with their physician, diabetes educator or other healthcare providers.
The Vree for Diabetes nutrition tracker offers improved functionality allowing people to track food, exercise and activity throughout the day. Beverages, such as coffee, and meals, including salads and sandwiches can be built, personalized and saved for future use on the system to make it easy to measure specific food preferences, down to what kind of cheese you like on your sandwich.

Announcement: Merck Launches New Mobile Application for People with Type 2 Diabetes...

iTunes links: FreeVree and Vree ($2)...