iPhone App for Drug Safety

Children's Hospital Boston launches iPhone application to track drug safety.
Writing in the Boston Globe's (9/16) "White Coat Notes" blog, Elizabeth Cooney said the "team from Children's Hospital Boston that brought 'Outbreaks Near Me' to smartphones during last year's H1N1 epidemic" has now "launched a similar application for tracking and reporting problems with drug safety." MedWatcher, "another app for the iPhone available free at the iTunes store, holds information about thousands of medications from US Food and Drug Administration databases." In addition to sending alerts from FDA and others on drugs, users can "submit reviews about problems with drugs."