The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is packed with essential information on diagnosing and treating medical disorders to help health care professionals and medical students deliver the best care. One of the best known and most widely distributed medical texts in the world is now ready to be distributed right into your pocket, on your iPhone/iPod touch, with the collected knowledge of more than 300 medical experts in various fields.

This Skyscape Trusted Resource is created in partnership with Merck Research Laboratories. Authors: Mark H. Beers, MD, et al.

The Merck Manual features expanded clinical focus on each disorder, as well as more specific guidance for patient examinations.

Designed for maximum clinical usefulness, the new Merck Manual makes it easy to find the right information, right away. To keep up with the changing face of medicine, new sections have been added, such as Critical Care Medicine, Metabolic Syndrome, Acute lung injury, Biological Warfare and Terrorism and many more.

Skyscape's Merck Manual for iPhone/iPod touch includes Medication indexing, calculators, illustrations, tables, and easily links to your other Skyscape resources to provide a comprehensive decision support environment.

It is available in two version i.e Subscription and Standard Version.

If you go for standard version, you will be able to use the product even after the product expires. However you will not be able to receive further updates. After the year, the product will still function, but without any fresh data. Also a limited period of phone support. And during the year and thereafter, if there is a new edition of the resource, it must be purchased separately.

Whereas, if you go for subscription version and though it expires after a year and you will not be able to use the product unless you renew, it still has more benefits than the standard version. The subscription is a lower price, gives the desired flexibility of length (a student can pay for a resource for only the period it is needed for a class, for example). It includes upgrades to new editions if they are released during the period of the subscription, and has expanded phone/chat/email support availability. You will also get device upgrade protection.

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