WebMD

As the old saying goes, you have nothing if you don’t have your health. Carrying the free WebMD app on your iPhone provides a rich repository of health and medical information in your pocket, as the app’s Home screen displayed in Figure 17-18 shows.

Let’s explore a few of these areas:

Symptom Checker: First let WebMD know your age and sex, and then you see an illustrated male or female body so that you can tap on the area of concern. Tap the Flip icon, shown on the bottom-left corner of Figure 17-19, to go from a front view to a back view and vice versa. Pinch and zoom to zero in on a specific body part.

Tap the appropriate body part (or tap the List button instead), and WebMD serves up a list of potential symptoms. Tap a symptom to detect possible conditions and find articles (on the WebMD website) that may help you out.

Drugs and Treatments: Among the tools you’ll find here is one that helps you identify drugs just by their shape, color, or the letters or numbers imprinted on the pill, tablet, or capsule.

First Aid: You can search for remedies, or consult a scrollable A to Z list to find treatments for everything from food poisoning to snakebites.

Local Health Listings: By using your current location (or entering another location), WebMD can help you find a physician by name or specialty, a pharmacy, or a hospital. You can even tap a phone number in any listing you find to add to your contacts.

If you sign up for a free WebMD account, you can save lists of drugs, conditions, first-aid topics, and articles.