Abstract: The invention is directed to a medical assessment support system. In one embodiment, a user inputs a query that identifies an adverse event that a patient has experienced and the ailments (diseases, disorders, symptoms, conditions etc.) that the patient has experienced. In response, the system causes one or more database searches to be performed to identify one or more possible causes of the adverse event for a patient with the identified ailments. In another embodiment, the user inputs a combination of one or more drugs that a patient has taken and one or more ailments that the patient has experienced. The system operates to determine if there is an adverse event associated with the specified combination and reports any such adverse event to the user. The system retains a copy of any such report for comparison to later searches so as to avoid reporting the same possible adverse event multiple times. The system conducts any such search on a predetermined schedule or can do so at the request of the user.