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Summary
Tools
Debian Med several tools

This metapackage will install tools for several purposes in health care. Currently it contains some simple programs for Personal Health.

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian Med Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian Med which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Med to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Med mailing list

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Debian Med Tools packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cycle
calendar program for women
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interfacex11
roleprogram
uitoolkitwxwidgets
usetimekeeping
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Cycle is a calendar for women. Given a cycle length or statistics for several periods, it can calculate the days until menstruation, the days of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to ovulations, and define the d.o.b. of a child. It allows the user to write notes and helps to supervise the administration of hormonal contraceptive tablets.

Possibilities of the program:

  • Calculate days of menstruation, based on the length of the cycle or on statistics of previous periods.
  • Calculate days of "safe" sex, fertile period and day to ovulations.
  • Definition of D.O.B. (Date Of Birth) of a child
  • Allows to write notes.
  • Helps to supervise reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets.
  • Multiple users allowed. Data is protected by a password for every user.

NOTE: This program is not a reliable contraceptive method. It does neither help to prevent sexual transmision diseases like AIDS. It is just an electronic means of keeping track of some of your medical data and extract some statistical conclusions from them. You cannot consider this program as a substitute for your gynecologist in any way.

Hunspell-de-med
German medical dictionary for hunspell
Maintainer: Tobias Quathamer
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This package contains a German medical dictionary for use with the hunspell spellchecker which is currently used within OpenOffice.org2 and as an ispell clone.

Mencal
A menstruation calendar
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Mencal is a menstruation calendar written in Perl.

It is a simple variation of the well-known Unix command cal. The main difference is that you can have some periodically repeating days highlighted in color. This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles conveniently.

Author: C. McCohy mccohy@kyberdigi.cz

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Pondus
henkilökohtainen painonhallintaohjelma GTK+2:lle
Maintainer: Eike Nicklas
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fieldmedicine
interfacex11
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uitoolkitgtk
usemonitor
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Pondus pitää kirjaa painostasi. Sen tarkoituksena on olla helppokäyttöinen, kevyt ja nopea. Tiedoista voidaan piirtää kuvaajia nopean painohistoriakatsauksen saamiseksi. Helpossa painonsuunnittelussa voit määritellä ihannepainosuunnitelman ja vertailla sitä toteutuneeseen painokuvaajaan.

Quitcount
A small tool which may help yourself quit smoking
Maintainer: Ricardo Mones
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QuitCount is a simple counter that shows what you spared since you quit smoking. Once you tell it the date you quit, how much you smoked, and how much it cost, it'll tell you how many cigarettes you didn't smoke since, and how much it makes in terms of money, tar, and life expectancy.

Wgerman-medical
German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
Maintainer: Tobias Quathamer
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This package contains a list of German medical words to be used by spelling checkers.

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Cl-pubmed
Common Lisp package to query Pubmed medical literature database
Maintainer: Kevin M. Rosenberg
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This library has functions for querying the PubMed medical literature database and parsing the XML results into Common Lisp objects. This package uses the cl-aserve for HTTP fetches.

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Mssstest
Normalisation of disease scores for patients with Multiple Sclerosis
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MSSStest is a program for implementing the method described in the article The Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score. R. Roxburgh S. Seaman et al. (2004), accepted for publication by Neurology. It calculates MSSS scores and uses these scores to test for differences between disease progression rates in different groups defined by genotype at some locus. A brief description of the method is given below.

Please cite: R. Roxburgh S. Seaman et al.: Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score. (DOI) American Academy of Neurology (2005)

No known packages available but some record of interest (WNPP bug)

Python-clips - wnpp
Python binding for the CLIPS expert system engine
License: LGPL
Debian package not available

CLIPS is an expert system shell / inference engine written by NASA (see Debian package clips).

pyclips are the Python bindings to that engine.

No known packages available

Hunspell-en-med
English medical spelling word list
License: GPL
Debian package not available

OpenMedSpel includes nearly 50,000 medical terms ranging from abdominis to zygomatic, which allows you to concentrate on your work instead of looking up words in a medical dictionary that are not in a standard USA English spelling dictionary.

Linuxorg-pcal
assist in women menstrual cycles tracking and fertility periods prediction
License: GPL
Debian package not available

Periodic Calendar is a GUI utility which assists in women menstrual cycles tracking and fertility periods prediction. This information can be used either to became pregnant or to prevent pregnancy. The fertility prediction is based on the calendar method which is not very precise. It is not recommended to use this method alone for the birth control.

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