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About Herbs
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Image Source: About Herbs, Apple App Store. Retrieved on November 18, 2019 from: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/about-herbs/id554267162
In this app, our Integrative Medicine Service — under the leadership of a pharmacist and botanicals expert — provides comprehensive, objective information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, complementary therapies, and more. Each topic has a clinical (professional) summary and a consumer (layperson) summary. For each topic mechanisms of action, warnings, contraindications, adverse events, and drug-herb interactions are listed.
More than 200 monographs describing the structure, purported uses, adverse effects, and drug interactions of various herbs, botanicals, supplements, complementary therapies, and more. The consumer summaries have a “purported uses” section.
Browse alphabetically, search, bookmark, professional and consumers. Easy to use, beautiful design
Screenshots
Patients and health professionals, public.
Oncology and general
Notes
Can be used by professionals and patients
Part 1: Editorial committee, content updates, and evidence grading
The app is relatively basic without a grading system. Nonetheless, we both like the app and think it is very useful because the content is evidence based, trustworthy, high quality, regularly updated, and easy to access.
Part 2: Source and authorship information for 3 entries
We would have preferred a more transparent approach to authorship but the content is well researched, professionally written and frequently updated. All entries follow the same structure (protocol), they are consistent and comprehensive.
Organization of information
You have to know what you are looking for. No autocorrect.
Navigation
The icons/links for each item are large and clear.
Extras
Bookmarks are available.
User Account required: No
Internet connection required for use: No
Text search field: No
Browsable content: No; A-Z list
Advertisements: No
Pop-up advertisements: No
In-app purchases: No
Devices
Compatible with iPad, Phone, and iPod touch devices. Requires Apple iOS 8.0 or later. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/about-herbs/id554267162 Last updated (as per App store listing): app version 1.3 (updated October 2019).
Compatible with Android: A web app version for all other mobile devices is also available https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/diagnosis-treatment/symptom-management/integrative-medicine/herbs
56.2 MB
App Developer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service
Country of Origin
USA
Contact
Twitter, Facebook, website: https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/diagnosis-treatment/symptom-management/integrative-medicine/herbs/e-mail-us
Phone: 212-639-2000
