Anyone doing medical research on the web may be helped by installing the Medical Toolbar, for either IE on Windows or FireFox on Windows and Mac.

The Medical Toolbar 2.0 has links to the various Medical News Today news sections, allowing fast access to the news of interest to the user. It also features a full list of medical search facilities including:

• Medical abbreviations
• Medical dictionary
• ICD-9 search
• Companies
• Associations
• PubMed and more

The Internet Explorer version of the toolbar also contains:

• The latest headlines from Medical News Today, featured in an auto-updating list (RSS).
• A search facility that highlights every occurrence, of the word or term entered, in the web page currently being viewed.