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iPhone med apps continue to flourish--and with fun names, too!
Though it might be hard to take seriously a medical application named "Diagnosaurus," especially with its cute logo— 
—this one seems to be worthy of consideration.
From Unbound Medicine,
Diagnosaurus is a valuable quick reference tool that contains over 1,000 differential diagnoses. . . . [T]his application helps health care professionals reach accurate diagnoses with speed and confidence where it is needed most, at the point of care.
It is now available for $0.99 from the iPod App store. Free versions are already available for PDAs (BlackBerry, Palm OS and Windows Mobile). Published by McGraw-Hill, Diagnosaurus is authored by Roni Zeiger, M.D., of Goggle Health fame.
Unbound Medicine has loads of other PDA-based software available for health professionals, and has partnered with several other prestigious information sources, including Merck & Co., Oxford University Press, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Unbound Medicine's mission epitomizes the idea of anytime, anyplace health:
[Our] mission is to solve the knowledge problem in healthcare. We develop handheld and Internet-based knowledge management solutions that revolutionize the way healthcare professionals interact with medical information. Leveraging expertise in information science, content creation, and technology development, our platforms and products provide clinicians with immediate, authoritative, and accurate answers where and when they are needed.
I continue to be amazed by the abundance of health- and medicine-related information that is now available, literally, in the palms of our hands.
(Thanks to MedGadget for its post about this story.)