WolframAlpha Community: Medicine and Health September 4, 2009

I use WolframAlpha because sometimes (if I know exactly what I want to find) it saves me plenty of time and clicks. If I want to calculate BMI, Google lists me several calculators. WolframAlpha calculates it itself. If I want to find information very fast about a clinical marker, Google gives me resources, WA gives me the best answer in one click. I also use it for ICD classification, as it’s more easily accessible than Wikipedia; for epidemiological data and other calculations.

To sum it up, I think WolframAlpha is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google is still the best.

Now WolframAlpha launches communities and forums.

Some medicine-related forums and interesting discussions:

Health & Fitness:

• Lifesaving application – Safe dosage of particular medicine
• How do you use Wolfram|Alpha to stay fit and healthy?

Medicine:

• medical tests
• How are you using Wolfram|Alpha?

Life Sciences:

• Problems with DNA sequences
• DNA sequence analysis
• Expand Genomic / Proteomic Database