WebMD launches new iPhone app for physicians

While we all love to self-diagnose ourselves via the WebMD website, Medscape would actually like to empower more physicians via their smartphone. Enter the new iPhone and iPod Touch Application from the leading source of health information itself.

Announced today, Medscape Mobile is a free medical application in a convenient mobile format that can be accessed on demand on the iPhone and iPod touch. With this tool doctors can access:

1. a comprehensive drug database with over 6,000 generic and brands (as well as herbal and supplements);

2. a drug interaction checker that allows you to check 30 different interactions between drugs, herbals and supplements; and

3. directories with 400,000 phyisicans, 57,000 pharmacies and 6,000 hospital listings