Tarascon

Tarascon comes as a paperback and PDA pharmacopoeia. They offer a variety of pocketbooks, each color coded and very small, as well as a few reference cards. The PDA version used to be very similar to Epocrates and was offered for free. Interestingly enough, Tarascon is also a small town in France. Their website is

www.tarascon.com

The PDA pharmacopoeia can be downloaded to Palm, PocketPC and Blackberry. This can be done online or you can buy a CD that will guide you with downloading. It costs $29.95 for a 12 month subscription and includes peer reviewed drug information, typical dosing (FDA approved and off-label uses), available trade name and generic formulations, metabolism and safety in pregnancy and lactation. Other aspects include:

• Expanded drug information from the Deluxe Edition of the print Pocket Pharmacopoeia
• A fully integrated tool for multiple drug interaction checking
• Continuous ongoing drug information auto-updates via the internet
• Palm®, Pocket PC®, and Blackberry® versions, including support for most extended memory cards
• Complete customer privacy. Unlike other medical software we will never sell your personal data and product use patterns to others
• A fully integrated "Herbal & Alternative Therapy" section
• 47 invaluable reference tables and 9 dynamic medical formula calculators
• Both convenient relative pricing codes ($ to $$$$$) and exact prices directly from www.drugstore.com
• Extensive pediatric drug dosing
• Unique Canadian trade names and drugs
• Software written by USBMIS, Inc, creators of the popular PDA versions of The Sanford Guide®

found on the product information page on the website.