The AvantGo application itself consumes about 500kb of memory. Provides a quick way of locating the contents of specific journals without visiting each journal's site. Also facilitates quick PubMed searches on specific therapeutics topics. More than anything, this site is a clever way to search the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database . Since the author is a pharmacist, the topics are nicely suited to issues germaine to drug therapy.
Users can also subscribe to receive free e-mail updates from as many journals as they wish.
This site recently won Honorable Mention in Pharmacy Practice's 2000 Commitment to Care Awards for Hospital Pharmacy. The next time you hear a surprising story about a disease being transmitted via fiber-optic cables, check this site. Through a process of literature review, multidisciplinary expert opinion-gathering, and consensus building, the OPOT site has published guidelines for management of seven diseases in primary care. The guidelines themselves are concise, use algorithms and tables extensively and are thoroughly references. The relationship between this group and the Ontario government's drug benefit plan is not explicitly mentioned on the site.