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Medical News review

Mark Mackay

We review medical news, an iPhone application that lets medical professionals keep up to date with the goings on in their field

Medical News includes all the news from www.doctors.net.uk

Published on Dec 7, 2009

No matter what business you’re in, naming your product something succinct and eye catching that tells your potential patrons what it does is essential.

You can get fancy of course, but often the straight forward approach is the best one. Clearly the developers of this app believe in this direct approach. Medical News is an iPhone application that delivers news of the medical variety to the iPhone.

The app has been put together by website and medical resource www.doctors.net.uk, an online info treasure trove for medical professionals that offers secure e-mail and free data. The website is apparently used by thousands of doctors each day in addition to public sector medial bodies such as The Department of Health and also pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

While it’s good to have a little background information on the people that make an app, if it’s as something like a news service then knowing that your information is coming from a reliable source is paramount, especially in the serious world of the medical professional. Medical News is not just an average news reader application put together to fill out the portfolio of a bedroom app developer.

This fact is further bolstered when you see the interface. Some inspiration has been taken from the www.doctors.net.uk logo and the cool blues are featured throughout. You can read news stories or listen to podcasts that the app states have been written exclusively for www.doctors.net.uk.

There’s also a series of medical stories which are ‘from a variety of sources’. The standard of the writing is very high, with most of the copy being written in a concise, academic and formal manner. Of all the stories we read we didn’t spot one typo or grammatical error.

Some photos or video content might have broken up the endless reams of text, but considering this app is free and made specifically for the medical professional looking for information and not entertainment, Medical News does its job very well.

If you’re in the medical trade and looking for up to date info in your industry then Medical News is well worth a download to check out.