Debian Med Project
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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

Cycle
calendar program for women 		Version: 0.3.1
License: DFSG free
Official Debian package -
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
 Version: 20080712
License: DFSG free
Official Debian package -
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 		Version: 2.3
License: DFSG free
Official Debian package -
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>
Mssstest
Normalisation of disease scores for patients with Multiple Sclerosis 		Version: 3.0
License: non-free
Debian package in non-free -
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.
Pondus
personal weight manager for GTK+2
Maintainer: Eike Nicklas
 Version: 0.5.1
License: DFSG free
Official Debian package -
Pondus keeps track of your body weight. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight and fast. The data can be plotted to get a quick overview of the history of your weight. A simple weight planner allows to define "target weights" and this plan can be compared with the actual measurements in a plot.
Wgerman-medical
German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
Maintainer: Tobias Quathamer
 Version: 20080712
License: DFSG free
Official Debian package -
This package contains a list of German medical words to be used by spelling checkers.

Official Debian packages (Suggested)

Cl-pubmed
Common Lisp package to query Pubmed medical literature database
Homepage not available
Maintainer: Kevin M. Rosenberg
 Version: 2.1.3
License: DFSG free
Official Debian package -
This library has functions for querying the PubMed medical literature database and parsing the XML results into Common Lisp objects.

Debian packages not available

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.