Epocrates Rx Pro for BlackBerry

A comprehensive drug reference that includes searchable brand, generic, OTC, alternative medicines and an infectious disease treatment guide.

Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic, alternative, and OTC drugs:

• Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved and off-label indications.
• Black box warnings, adverse reactions, drug interactions, and more.
• National and regional healthcare insurance formularies.
• Direct access to many manufacturers by phone or email for answers to your critical prescribing questions.
• Approximate retail drug pricing for patients paying out-of-pocket.
• Pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters and therapeutic drug levels.
• DEA/FDA status
• Metabolism, excretion, drug class, and mechanism of action

Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions between up to 30 drugs at a time including brand, generic, alternative, and OTC drugs. Potential interactions are organized by category to help you determine the appropriate action.

Our interaction logic goes beyond prescribing information to incorporate research that factors attributes such as inhibition potency, substrate exclusivity, and therapeutic index to determine clinical significance.

Identify a pill based on physical characteristics (i.e., color, shape) and/or imprint code.

• Select characteristics to view drug names and images
• Tap on a drug image to enlarge the picture

Additional references and tools to help you every day.

• MedMath - dozens of useful medical calculators, including Pregnancy Wheel and Basal Energy Expenditure
• Association guidelines and reference tables

With our ID treatment guide, you can:

• Search by system, organism, or organism class
• Access empiric and specific treatment recommendations
• Tap on a drug name to view its complete monograph

Epocrates Rx Pro for Blackberry Requirements

• BlackBerry device
  BlackBerry OS 4.1 and above with a data plan -
  BlackBerry version requires wireless installation and updates
• Minimum available memory
  11 MB* + 20K per free health plan formulary selected
  *5 MB of Epocrates Rx Pro can be installed to a microSD card
• Expansion (memory) cards
  Any microSD card
• Important notes:
  Requires a wireless data plan or a wi-fi connection to install the application and receive content updates.