Mobile Resources in Medicine

"AlcoDroid is an alcohol consumption tracker, drinks diary and blood alcohol content calculator. AlcoDroid helps you get a better handle of what you drink and change your drinking habits. Optionally it also tracks costs of your drinks. AlcoDroid also provides an estimate of your blood alcohol content (BAC) based on the drinks you've logged, plots your BAC development in a chart and indicates when you get below the legal limit or back to sobriety."

The CDC Mobile application is now available on your smartphone. Whether you are an iPhone or Android user you now have 24/7 access to timely, vital health information, wherever you go. Mobile users can enjoy a greater variety of content such as stories, videos, podcasts, journals and blogs. Organize your app home screen so the information that’s most important to you appears first! Turn off the sources you don’t want with just a flip of a switch and reset it all with the tap of a button.

Challenge your Health IQ
CDC’s interactive, educational, and fun health trivia application, Health IQ, is now available in Spanish. As CDC’s first bi-lingual mobile application, now even more users can challenge their Health IQ and learn about health while having fun!

"The application allows a user to pick a particular type of ALS facility (Clinics, ALS Association (ALSA) Chapters or Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Offices), enter a valid ZIP code and perform a search. Alternatively, a user can use the geolocation feature to find their current location and use the returned ZIP code to perform a search. The results will return a map and table of the five closest ALS facilities nearest the provided ZIP code. The results are ordered from A through E, whereas A is the closest facility and E is the farthest facility. The tabular information contains the facility's name, affiliation, address, phone and the approximate distance from the provided ZIP code. The map is fully interactive and allows the user to pan and zoom into the facilities location. The user can touch a facility point to get information on that particular facility."

"Montezuma’s revenge, Delhi belly, or travelers’ diarrhea—whatever you call it, it can ruin your international trip. Help prevent travelers’ diarrhea by using CDC’s Can I Eat This? app. Select the country you’re in and answer a few simple questions about what you’re thinking about eating or drinking, and Can I Eat This? will tell you whether it’s likely to be safe. With Can I Eat This?, you can be more confident that your food and drink choices won’t make you spend your international trip in the bathroom."

"The CDC mobile application puts health information at your fingertips. It features important health articles, Disease of the Week, popular journals, prevention tips, and updates timed with important health concerns and events throughout the year. It also provides easy access to social media so you can share stories, links, podcasts, and videos with your friends and family. In an increasingly mobile world, you’ll have 24/7 access to timely, vital health information so you can protect yourself and your loved ones."

The app features a multimodal indicator and a graphic-oriented guide for ladder selection, inspection, positioning, accessorizing, and safe use. The app is also available in Spanish (to view and use, select Spanish as the phone language).

Whether you’re a teen considering a career in the sciences, a teacher looking for a great new way to show epidemiology at work, or a germ nerd of any age, Solve the Outbreak is a fascinating peek into the work that real-life Disease Detectives do every day to keep us safe.
As soon as a new outbreak is suspected, you race to the scene to figure out what’s happening, why, how it started, and how it’s spread. Act fast and you can save a whole town, state, or even a country. Come up with the wrong answers and, well…you can always try again!