Side Effect CheckSide Effect Check is a $0.99 iPhone app that I could see in any doctor’s or med student’s toolkit.  It allows you to see if there are any reported connections between a specific medicine and a specific medical condition.  For example, you can check on “aspirin” and “ulcers” to see if there is a reported connection.  The results page, like the one displayed here, displays the results according to the MedWatch database in the computing cloud somewhere.

While the results can tell you if a connection exists, there doesn’t seem to be a way to drill down into them.  I would love to see exactly what what results were connected to just the med or just the symptom.

I’ve never had any medical training, so my attempts to find a med that had a connection with a particular symptom were random at best.  But in the hands of the right person, I can see this app as having some real benefit.  For the normal user though, I’d suggest the Drug Prescription Info and Pregnancy & Drug Safety apps by the same developer.  I’ll be reviewing them soon.