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SN Mobile app Features Operating systems 1.        Medicinal Chemistry Toolkit (Free) The app contains tools to calculate and graphically visualize a number of values, including: ·     Cheng-Prusoff; ·     Dose to man; ·     Gibbs free energy to binding constant; ·     potency shift due to plasma protein binding; ·     Log D vs pH curves; ·     Ligand Lipophilic Efficiency; ·     GClogP The App also includes a compound quality calculator, a maximum absorbable dose calculator; attrition modeller, drug-drug interactions calculator and more. The App also includes a compound quality calculator, a maximum absorbable dose calculator; attrition modeller, drug-drug interactions calculator and more. iPad and requires iOS 7.1 or later. 2. ...

A specialist diabetes researcher sees Pokemon Go -- the virtual character-hunting game with millions of players worldwide -- as an excellent means of tackling rising levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes . Pokemon Go has now piqued the interest of the medical world. The smartphone-based character-hunting craze that's sweeping the world has caught the attention of a researcher at the University of Leicester, UK, specialising in international diabetes research. In fact, Dr Tom Yates sees the application as a potential means of tackling sedentary lifestyles and obesity, which can lead to type 2 diabetes. The augmented reality mobile game has so far been downloaded 75 million times worldwide, and sees users chase Pokemon characters through the streets. The famous little "Pocket Monsters" who sprung up in the 1990s appear on users' smartphone screens superimposed on real-world locations. One of the main recommendations in the prevention and treatment of di...

India's drug pricing watchdog is planning to introduce an app that will enable patients to check prices of essential medicines on-the-go. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) will do this by extending its "Pharma Jan Samadhan" web-portal facility to smartphones to slash instances of drug makers and retailers overcharging consumers for life-saving, often expensive, medicines. Developed by the National Informatics Centre, the app —" Search Medicine Price "— is slated for an android phone launch on August 29 by the minister of chemicals and fertilisers Anant Kumar. iPhone users can also expect to have this information at their fingertips within another two months, according to NPPA. A test version has already been made available for public feedback. In this version, patients can search for the ceiling price of all medicines under the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) on the basis of its generic name and the state they'...

In the first-of-its-kind initiative, the 'Respitrack' App developed by Sun Pharma will enable doctors to track treatment progress of patients, and increase compliance to medication for better management of asthma, where adherence to treatment is a challenge. As part of its efforts to leverage mobile technology to boost treatment in chronic and lifestyle diseases, Sun Pharmaceuticals is rolling out a mobile application to connect doctors and patients. In the first-of-its-kind initiative, the 'Respitrack' App developed by Sun Pharma will enable doctors to track treatment progress of patients, and increase compliance to medication for better management of asthma, where adherence to treatment is a challenge . The model will be replicated later in diabetes and other lifestyle ailments. Most pharma companies in India are largely focussed on education for doctors, like e-detailing (with digital tablets), or disease awareness for patients, in the digital space, for ...

An android based free mobile application has been launched recently. Named "VPATAPP" this app is one of its kind of product worldwide available for patent professionals. It provides: 1. Worldwide patent blogs from different regions like USA, Europe, BRIC, Latin America, Africa, and Asia-pacific including India; 2. Worldwide full time LLM/Masters/ Graduate courses in IP; 3. Journals in the area of Intellectual Property Law especially patents; 4. Weekly or monthly official gazettes or registers published by different patent offices across the world; 5. Patent classification systems; 6. Patent search websites available from patent offices across the world; 7. Updated full text patent acts of different countries as published by the patent offices or WIPO. Please see: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gunadhya.vpatapp Team Pharma literati is proud to be associated with the app and we have a link of the app on the right hand side of the blog...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Department of Telecommunications and National AIDS Control Organization announced the launch of a new mobile application on HIV/AIDS today. This mobile application will provide complete information on HIV, increase awareness and risk perception as well as prompt users to access HIV testing from the nearest centre free of cost . Ensuring confidentiality , with bi-lingual facility and easy compatibility, it is expected to reach more than 11 crore people across urban & rural settings. Speaking at the occasion, J.P. Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare said that, "Technology and youth are inseparable; however, inadequate access to information and complex messages from various sources can confuse the youth. If we can use technology to guide and educate youth, it can open up endless opportunities to reach the young with authentic information on the services on HIV and AID...

Dear All, The medical fraternity has been using CIMS since long. The database used for critical prescription information, medical news and articles is now available as mobile application.  The Free CIMS app delivers critical prescribing information, medical news and CME articles as well as clinical calculators essential to physicians’ daily practice needs. With CIMS available across multiple platforms and devices, you can now easily and conveniently find the most up-to-date and relevant drug information you need anytime, anywhere.

Dear all, Pharmabiz reports that Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) recently launched revolutionary mobile application for adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting. The mobile application for ADR reporting was specifically designed to facilitate the needs of the IPC, to ensure hassle free ADR reporting for the stakeholders. It was developed as part of a joint venture between the IPC, which acts as the national coordination centre (NCC) for PvPI, and NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur . The mobile application is expected to provide a platform for the private healthcare professionals to report ADRs to safeguard and enhance public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and quality of drugs. The application has in-built facilities and features for reporting of adverse drug reactions such as customisation of reporter details, auto entry in drug details, WHO algorithm based causality assessment, etc. This application was launched at IPC Ghaziabad recently, by B P Sharma, secretary, health ...

A very useful mobile application named ‘ pharmacareer’ has been recently developed by Dr. Anwar Shaikh, Professor from Bhujbal Knowledge City, MET Institute of Pharmacy. This application is available on Google Play Store and can be downloaded on any Android mobile. It can be downloaded by typing the search word ‘pharmacareer dr.anwar’ in the Play Store of any Android phone and clicking download and install. The direct download link for the app is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app25864.vinebre   ‘ Pharmacareer app’ will play an important role in reducing the gap between awareness and opportunities as daily updates will be easily availed by just opening the pharmacareer mobile app on the mobile. The application has several features which are beneficial for students of pharmacy. Various tabs available on the app are as follows: ·          Placements ·        ...