Additional info such as availability, price and working hours are displayed as well. Currently FluShot lists clinics and pharmacy chains across 20 US states and more data added daily.

Features:

• Flu vaccination shot locator for your city.
• Lists locations for both seasonal and H1N1 vaccinations.
• Currently site lists clinics and pharmacy chains across 20 US states.
• Additional info such as availability, price and working hours are also displayed.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: Google Flu Trends, FluTracker and more in 5 Websites To Get Swine Flu Facts.

Check out FluShot @ http://maps.google.com/flushot

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To get more details, click country of your interest and you will be presented an overview with a heat map and a line chart showing the flu trend over a period of time.

Many countries such as the UK, Ireland, Iceland, China and all of Africa are omitted from the map. However you are given results for all of North America and continental Europe where flu trends (especially with Swine Flu) are on the rise.

You can also download Flu Trends Data, which is all of the data concerning flu trends dating back to 2003.

Features:

• Interactive map of flu trends dating back to 2003.
• Covers much of the Western World and Japan.
• Run by the charitable arm of the Google search engine.
• Gives you heat map and a line chart showing a flu trend.
• Similar tools: There is a FluTracker and some more in 5 Websites To Get Swine Flu Facts.

Check out Google Flu Trends @ www.google.org/flutrends (by Dean Sherwin)

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You could also zoom in to find city-specific information, number of fatal cases and check out different map visualizations to get more information about the spread of the disease.

Features

• Check swine flu outbreaks on Google Maps.
• See which regions are more affected and find the number of fatal cases.
• Zoom in to find out city specific information.
• Different visualization options available.
• Also see our article on similar topic “Swine Flu – 5 Websites To Get the Facts and Follow Updates“.

Check out FluTracker @ www.flutracker.rhizalabs.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Features:

• Get healthcare answers quickly on Twitter.
• Helps you save money on prescription drugs.
• Follow @askch on Twitter and DM them any health question.
• The service automatically replies to your DM almost instantly.
• The format of questions is explained on the site.
• Similar tool: MedTipster and RateADrug.

Check out AskCh @ ask.changehealthcare.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Moreover, it contains useful health articles, living advice (career, travel and sports tips) and a marketplace for disability products and services.

Features:

• Online community and social network for disabled people.
• Connect with people with disabilities, share your story and get practical answers to hard questions from people who went through similar experiences.
• Living advice – career, sports and traveling tips.
• Useful health articles for various disability conditions.
• Marketplace for disability products and services.
• Sign up free online to join the community. Upload your photo, edit profile, join discussions or create your own blog.

Check out Disaboom @ www.disaboom.com

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Sign in with your Google account details and create your personal profile by entering your health conditions, medication, allergies etc. You can have more than one profile (for family members) and give name to each separate profile. Your data is kept private and secure, however, you can share your data with other people (doctors, friends) and control who can access what.

Check out the directory of online health tools providers that are associated with Google Health. Link them to your profile to start using their services to manage your health information.

Features:

• Store and manage you health information in one central place.
• Access your information from anywhere using your Google account credentials.
• Build multiple online health profiles.
• Import medical records from hospitals, pharmacies and health records partner providers listed in the directory.
• Share your health information with other people. Control who can access what.
• Find doctors by name, location and specialty and add them to your medical contacts.
• Service is free. Sign in with your Google account details.
• Similar tools MyVitals and HealthVault.

Check out Google Health @ http://www.google.com/health

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ICYou.com is a user-generated community where people share videos related to different health and medical issues. There are thousands of videos about diseases, general wellness, treatments and medical policies. You can find a video by searching for it or browsing through the list of health topics. Similar to other video sharing websites, users can create channels, add comments to a video, embed video on a website or share it across major social networking sites.

Check out ICYou promo video:

Main Feature:

• Watch thousands of health related videos.
• Find a video by disease/condition.
• Browse videos through popular searches or popular tags.
• Create channels for a specific topic and subscribe to other channels.
• Post comments, add videos to favorites and share across social networks.
• Get latest videos by RSS feeds.
• Similar site: Trusera.

Visit Icyou @ www.icyou.com

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You can search for healthcare providers and browse the database by location or nam. Clicking on particular healthcare service provider brings you a comprehensive report about it. For example, for hospitals, it publishes detailed reports on their quality, total charges, patient safety, mortality rate and more. The website allows to compare up to 4 hospitals at once for any of the above mentioned parameters.

Features:

• Free comprehensive reports on health care providers in your area.
• Compare doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and fertility centers in every state in the US.
• The data obtained from federal and state government agencies and other third party sources.

Check out UCompareHealthcare @ www.ucomparehealthcare.com

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Start by entering the medications that needs to be taken along with the intervals for each. iPills will then present you with a daily pillbox showing the medicines you need to take for the day. Everytime after taking the medicine you need to simply tap the corresponding pills on the screen.

When it comes to appearance, you can further customize the way pills look with different colors and shapes.

The application also lets you keep an overall record of the medications you’ve taken, and a missed.

Features:

• iPhone medicine tracker app.
• Easily see what pills you’ve taken.
• Easily view what medications are left to take.
• Customizable pill appearance.
• Complete history.
• Set up any interval.
• Free, no registration needed.

Check out iPills @ www.iliumsoft.com/site/iphone/products_ipills

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In some cases, it is very important to take meds as prescribed, missing a few or taking more can lead to undesired results. While there are lots of gadgets that can be used to track medications they do not come cheap. But the good news, the person behind DidMed.com came up with a simple and absolutely free solution. DidMed provides free printable labels that help you easily track medications.

These labels can have have the days (7) or dates (31) and a slit band above them. The slit band contains a marker that can be easily moved along the band and positioned above any of the dates.

All that’s left for you to do is to print out and cut the label as instructed and stick it on your medication bottle.

Check Out  DidMed @ www.didmed.com

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From the Page:

“Medtipster is dedicated to providing American consumers with thousands of dollars annually in healthcare and pharmaceutical savings by being the first to provide the most accurate and reliable healthcare data, pricing and information to the public.”

Using MedTipster is really simple and doesn’t require any registration. Just enter the drug name, chose the dosage and enter your zip code. MedTipster would show you prices of generic equivalents at your neighbourhood pharmacies. It also provides you all the detailed information about the pharmacy and how much different quantities of the medicine would cost you.

Here are some of the main features:

• Find affordable generics for your prescriptions across various pharmacies.
• Get detailed information for pharmacies including maps.
• Search by drug name or even by medical condition.
• Search for immunizations and shots in your area.
• Find a neighbourhood pharmacy that offers health screenings.
• Listings of mini clinics in your area.
• A forum for people to exchange information and share tips.
• Email a registered pharmacist to get your questions answered.

Check out MedTipster @ MedTipster.com (by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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• SymptomChecker: Check Medical Symptoms & What They Mean

You can check your symptoms in 3 easy steps:

1. Submit your age and sex.
2. Select part of the body where you experiencing problems. Zoom in to a more specific part of the body, and then select from the symptoms available.
3. Add more symptoms (from same or different part of body) or select a possible condition to get more information.

After you have identified the most possible condition for your symptom,  click to view more information and read related articles about it without leaving the page. You can always go back, add/remove symptoms or edit your age and sex.

Note: This App is for information purposes only and is not meant as a substitute for a professional medical advice.

Features:

• Check your medical symptoms and view possible conditions via an interactive tool.
• Symptom Checker provided by WebMD health information portal.
• Zoom in and out on your body parts to select symptom.
• Search symptoms from the search bar.
• Check your symptoms from the website or from your cellphone.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar sites: iMedix and Trusera.

Go to Symptom Checker @ http://symptoms.webmd.com/symptomchecker

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You can share your own health story and let other members with similar health problems benefit from your experience. Sign up free to get started.

The Trusera was inspired by a guy whose disease was misdiagnosed by 10 doctors and was saved thanks to a call from a friend. Check out the video below:

Features:

• Post your health questions and get help from people who had similar health experience.
• Share your own  health experiences to benefit other people with the same health problems.
• View stories by type of disease (diabetes, arthritis etc), view recent and popular stories.
• Ask questions and get help from community.
• Start a journal to document your experiences with a health problem.
• Watch JustOne video stories from people who share their experiences.
• Free, sign up to share your experiences and interact with community.

Check out Trusera @ www.trusera.com via (Appscout)

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It’s a pretty good site that aims to help people find good doctors by specialty or location, based on the ratings given to them by their patients. Each doctor gets an overall quality score that consists of 2 factors: Helpfulness and Knowledge.

RateMDs brings greater transparency into doctor-patient relations. Better, friendlier and more competent doctors are rated up and gain credits and recognition, while incompetent, rude and unethical doctors get a bad press and can even get sued if many patients complain. You can even use the site to file a formal complaint against a particular doctor with the state’s medical board.

Features:

• Doctor recommendations and rating website.
• Find a good doctor by specialty and location.
• Sort doctor’s from best to worst based on the overall quality score.
• The site available in US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
• Register to review your doctor, edit rating and save favorite doctors in your account.

Check out RateMDs @ www.ratemds.com

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The application is useful not only for med. students, teachers, but everyone who wants to learn more about the human body. The models were developed by experts with decades of experience in the fields of medical illustration and biomedical visualization.

(Note: You need to install the Unity Web Player browser plugin from the website before you can run the app)

Check out the demo below for additional details:

Features:

• Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model.
• Over 400,000 registered users.
• Detailed models of all body systems and all major organs.
• 1700 anatomical structures.
• Dynamic search capability.
• Easy-to-use, 3D controls.
• Compatible with all popular web browsers

Check out Visible Body @ www.visiblebody.com

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RateADrug is a website which aims to generate ratings based on user reviews and also shows you the possible prescription drugs side effects according to what users have experienced.

You can search a drug by typing it in the search bar and then get various details and ratings based on different parameters. Like you can see in the screenshot below, the drug Lipitor is rated by anonymous users based on the positive and negative side effects it incurs. You may also choose a condition from the drop down menu and then see the corresponding details.

Check out RateADrug @ www.rateadrug.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Each article has a Lead Editor who monitors changes and edits made to the article. An article can be viewed in 2 types : Plain english – for lay people and Clinical – for Medical professionals, with most entries currently presented in Plain english.

If you are not a Medical professional but want to contribute, you can suggest a change that has to be approved by an Editor to get added to the article. Members can join Groups, Communities of specific areas of expertise or just get listed in the Professionals Directory.

Features:

• Encyclopedia of medical knowledge contributed and edited by professionals.
• Created with the support of prominent institutions including Harvard Medical School, Standford School of Medicine and others.
• Currently lists 796 Professional Editors.
• Editors are Certified physicians or have a PHD in biomedical field.
• Members can join Groups, Communities of specific areas of expertise or just get listed in the Professionals Directory.
• Anyone can suggest a change, but only editors can approve it.

Check out Medpedia @ www.medpedia.com

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Calculating your ideal body weight is very easy here, simply enter your current weight, height, age and gender and press on the “Calculate” button.

People Choice Ideal Weight: is what other people with your weight, height and age would describe as their “ideal weight”.
Medical Recommendation: is what doctors recommend as the healthy weight for your height.

Site recommends your weight to be in between these two calculations. This tool is not for children (below 18 years old), bodybuilders and athletes, who have extra muscles.

Features:

• Calculate your ideal body weight.
• Shows what other people with your weight, height and age would describe as their ideal weight.
• Results are based on a more recent data than most other such sites.
• Free.

Check out Peoples Choice Ideal Weight Calculator @ www.halls.md

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• BMI Calculator: Find Out Your Body Mass Index
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Features

• Search for symptoms, diseases, treatments etc, on top health sources on the web.
• Discover people with similar health interests and issues.
• Filter people further by gender and age.
• Connect with people who are interested in the same health topics and exchange information and tips.
• Send and receive messages to and from other members.
• Build your onw iMedix profile and add others as friends.
• Rank medical content (thumbs up/down) to make future search results more relevant/personal.

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iMedix – Best New Start-up of 2007

Check out iMedix @ www.imedix.com

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Features:

• Excellent search results filtering options: causes, treatment, drugs, etc.
• options to broaden/narrow search results
• Health Channel Directory – a channel is a one-stop resource for related medical articles, news, Healthmaps, etc.

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