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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.

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Debian Med Tools packages

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cronometer
CRON-o-Meter - Exercise and nutrient intake tracker
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Easy to use daily nutrient intake tracker that includes nutritional information on over 8000 foods. User can create, import and export custom foods and recipes as well as set personal targets for each nutrient. CRON-O-Meter can also track and chart your biometrics (weight, blood pressure, temperature, etc) and generate detailed reports on your nutritional intake.

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cycle
calendar program for women
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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 one 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 transmission 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.

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edfbrowser
viewer for biosignal storage files such as bdf and edf
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EDFbrowser is a viewer for medical timeseries storage files containing data such as EEG, EMG, and ECG signals. It supports EDF(+) and BDF(+) file formats. Apart from viewing the files, it also supports some editing operations and can convert the biomedical files to other formats.

Please cite: Martin Wolgast, Lars-Gunnar Lundh and Gardar Viborg: Cognitive reappraisal and acceptance: An experimental comparison of two emotion regulation strategies". Behaviour Research and Therapy 49(12):858–866 (2011)
galileo
Utility to securely synchronize a Fitbit device with the Fitbit web service
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Galileo is a Python utility to securely synchronize a Fitbit device with the Fitbit web service. It allows you to browse your data on their website, and compatible applications. The main features of Galileo are: Synchronize your fitbit tracker with the fitbit server using the provided dongle; Securely communicate (using HTTPS) with the fitbit server; Save all your dumps locally for possible later analyse. Galileo supports the following trackers:

  • Fitbit One
  • Fitbit Zip
  • Fitbit Flex
  • Fitbit Force
  • Fitbit Charge
  • Fitbit Charge HR
hunspell-de-med
German medical dictionary for hunspell
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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.

hunspell-en-med
English medical dictionary for hunspell
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This package contains an English medical dictionary for use with the hunspell spell checker which is currently used by OpenOffice.org2

nut-nutrition
dietary nutrition analysis software
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This software help you record what you eat and then analyzes your meals for nutrient levels in terms of the USDA "Daily Value" (the standard for food labeling in the US.

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nutsqlite
Dietary nutrition analysis software
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NUTsqlite uses the USDA database and stores this along with your personal data in a portable SQLite database allowing you to perform analysis and plan for your nutrition. Features include:

  • The complete USDA database, your personal data, and the program code all stored in a portable SQLite database
  • Foods easy to find and add to daily meals
  • Configurable for 1-19 meals per day and any dietary plan--including ketogenic, low carb, zone, low fat
  • Comprehensive meal analysis for any number of consecutive meals
  • Presents both easy-to-read percentage summaries and in-depth nutrient analysis, including Omega-3 and Omega-6 essential fatty acids
  • Foods can be weighed in grams or ounces
  • Includes novel meal planning feature: you choose the food, NUT adjusts the quantities to your plan
  • Calorie Auto-Set feature uses linear regression on daily scale measurements of weight and body fat percentage to find optimal calorie level for improved body composition
  • Allows recording of recipes and customary meals for fast data entry
  • Sorts foods richest in each of the 150 nutrients
  • Reveals which foods contribute most to user's nutrition
pcalendar
track menstrual cycles and predict fertility periods
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Periodic Calendar is a GUI application which assists in women menstrual cycles tracking and fertility periods prediction. This information can be used as supportive either for conception or contraception planning.

Periodic Calendar provides support for BBT and sympto-thermal methods which have the highest reliability in fertility periods prediction. User can choose any subset of the features to be used or even fall to the generic calendar method (which if used alone is very unreliable).

Authors of the Periodic Calendar still insist on not being an equal substitute to the fertility planning consultants or doctors. Before using this application please talk to your doctor or read a good book on the subject.

THE PREDICTIONS MADE BY THIS PROGRAM CAN BE NEVER BE CONSIDERED AS FINAL. THE METHODS USED ARE NOT 100% EFFECTIVE FOR ALL WOMEN.

pondus
personal weight manager for GTK+2
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Pondus keeps track of your body weight and, optionally, the percentage of bodyfat, muscle and water. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight and fast. All data can be plotted to get a quick overview of the history of your weight. A simple weight planner allows one to define "target weights" and this plan can be compared with the actual measurements in a plot.

python3-fitbit
FitBit REST API Client Implementation - Python 3
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A Python module containing an implementation of a client for the FitBit REST API. It uses OAuth for authentication, it supports both US and SI units.

This package contains the Python 3 module.

quitcount
Small tool which may help yourself quit smoking
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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.

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r-cran-fitbitscraper
Import your Fitbit data from the Fitbit's website into R
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This R package scrapes Fitbit data from the Fitbit's website. This does not use the official API, but instead uses the API that the web dashboard uses to generate the graphs displayed on the dashboard after login on the Fitbit's website.

r-cran-fitcoach
R package for analysis and retrieve data of Fitbit
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This R package use the official API to import Fitbit data into R. Fitbit R API that provides fitbit coach functionality by analyzing your data obtained via fitbit API calls, and by giving personalized recommendations for the rest of the day based on your behavior.

wgerman-medical
German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
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This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/german-medical containing a list of German medical words. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).

workrave
Repetitive Strain Injury prevention tool
Maintainer: Francois Marier
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Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

It includes a system tray applet that works with GNOME and KDE and has network capabilities to monitor your activity even if switching back and forth between different computers is part of your job.

Workrave offers many more configuration options than other similar tools.

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

entangle
Tethered Camera Control & Capture
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Entangle provides a graphical interface for "tethered shooting", aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.

Using Entangle is as easy as 1,2,3...

  • Connect camera
  • Launch Entangle
  • Shoot photos

With a sufficiently capable digital SLR camera Entangle allows:

  • Trigger the shutter from the computer
  • Live preview of scene before shooting
  • Automatic download and display of photos as they are shot
  • Control of all camera settings from computer
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goldencheetah
set of analysis tools for cycling performance
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GoldenCheetah is a software package that:

  • Provides a rich set of analysis tools, including a critical power graph, BikeScore calculation, histogram analysis, a best interval finder, and a pedal force versus pedal velocity chart, to name just a few.
  • Downloads ride data directly from supported devices.
  • Imports ride data downloaded with other programs, including TrainingPeaks WKO+ and the manufacturers' software for the Ergomo, Garmin, Polar, PowerTap, and SRM devices.
mencal
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.

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Remark of Debian Med team: Use pcalendar instead

Please consider using pcalendar instead of mencal because mencal is outdated, not maintained any more and pcalendar simply overpasses it.

oscar
Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter (OSCAR)
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OSCAR is a Free Software, cross platform research tool for exploring data produced by CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machines, and related equipment, which are used in the treatment of sleep apnea and other sleep disorders.

OSCAR is a derivative of SleepyHead version 1.1.0, created when that was abandoned by Mark Watkins.

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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 H S R Roxburgh, S R Seaman, T Masterman, A E Hensiek, S J Sawcer, S Vukusic, I Achiti, C Confavreux, M Coustans, E le Page, G Edan, G V McDonnell, S Hawkins, M Trojano, M Liguori, E Cocco, M G Marrosu, F Tesser, M A Leone, A Weber, F Zipp, B Miterski, J T Epplen, A Oturai, P Soelberg Sorensen, E G Celius, N Tellez Lara, X Montalban, P Villoslada, A M Silva, M Marta, I Leite, B Dubois, J Rubio, H Butzkueven, T Kilpatrick, M P Mycko, K W Selmaj, M E Rio, M Sa, G Salemi, G Savettieri, J Hillert and D A S Compston: Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score: using disability and disease duration to rate disease severity. (PubMed,eprint) Neurology 64(7):1144-51 (2005)

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pesco
Cognitive stimulation tool for elderly or cognitively impaired
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Pesco is a free software (EUPL) tool whose main goal is to provide cognitive stimulation for the elderly people and cognitive impaired. Its main goal is to evaluate and cognitively stimulate people to prevent the cognitive impairment, delaying the dependence from early stages. It provides test and exercises for the neurological and functional rehabilitation of memory, concentration, reasoning and organization.

*Popularitycontest results: number of people who use this package regularly (number of people who upgraded this package recently) out of 237401