FDA Search Graduation Day

I posted earlier about creating a plugin for Mozilla's Firefox that allowed users to search the FDA and CDCwebsites and FDAble's search engines by right-clicking on a highlighted word.

Turns out that you can submit a plugin, but it's considered experimental until you've received reviews.

You also have to write a short justification of why your plugin is worthy of release to the public at large.

I'm happy to announce that, as of today, the FDA Search plugin has graduated from experimental to public.

How to use it?

1. download the plugin.
2. if you're on a web-page that contains a drug name or other health related term, highlight the term
3. right-click on the highlighted term and choose whether you'd like to use the term to search, the FDA, CDC or FDAble search engines.

That's it!

Updated FDA Search add-on for Firefox (WOHOOO!)

Just updated the FDA Search add-on from version 0.3.0 to 0.6.0 (I just make these numbers up as I have no idea what they're supposed to mean).

It's a pretty significant upgrade, so I doubled the version #.

What can it do now?

you can highlight a word or phrase and search

• the FDA's website
• the CDC's website
• drug adverse events
• vaccine adverse events
• drug safety analysis
• clinical trials
• FDA warning letters

Also has some nifty icons added, which took me 4ever to figure out how to add. Mozilla's xul documentation is horrendous.