# Harriet Lane Handbook

> Pediatric Formulary & PubMed

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id458365685](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id458365685)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id458365685`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Unbound Medicine, Inc.
- **Category:** Medical
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (597 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.23
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2011-09-13
- **Size:** 15 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/harriet-lane-handbook/id458365685)
- **Website:** [https://www.unboundmedicine.com/harrietlane](https://www.unboundmedicine.com/harrietlane)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.unboundmedicine.com/privacy](http://www.unboundmedicine.com/privacy)

## Description

Harriet Lane Handbook is the authoritative pediatric resource designed for interns, residents, and practitioners. This Chrome extension delivers updated disease guidelines, a comprehensive drug formulary, and concise disease summaries with figures, algorithms, tables, and charts. It supports fast search, offline notes, highlighting, and bookmarking to help you confirm diagnoses and manage pediatric care efficiently.

Prime PubMed integration provides quick access to abstracts and citations, with Grapherence visualizations to explore interrelationships in medical literature. An upgrade option adds Davis’s Drug Guide for expanded drug details. Enhanced calculators for dosing and drug interactions complete this essential pediatric reference for mobile use.

## Rankings

- #67,122 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise Harriet Lane Handbook as a portable, trusted daily reference for pediatric dosing, with handy favorites and search features and a strong formulary component. Many rely on it as a go-to resource in clinical practice. However, reviews consistently cite drawbacks: a high price, inconsistent updates and compatibility issues that hinder opening or force repurchase, and suboptimal search/navigation. Additional concerns include the absence of an integrated dosing calculator/sliders, limited cross-referencing, and readability/layout problems on small screens. Overall, content is valued but app design and updates lag.

### Pros

- Portable and handy as a reference on the phone for pediatric dosing.
- Daily-use trusted resource; a go-to reference for clinicians.
- Ability to save favorites and perform searches.
- Formulary and expanded drug search are valuable features.

### Cons

- High price for the content; perceived as expensive.
- Inconsistent updates/compatibility issues; some versions won’t open after iOS updates and may require repurchasing.
- Search and navigation are suboptimal; limited search power.

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