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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Russ Altman quoted in New York Times on finding hidden side effects of drugs using web search data

Russ Altman quoted in New York Times on finding hidden side effects of drugs using web search data

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/unreported-side-effects-of-drugs-found-using-internet-data-study-finds.html

The New York Times reports on a study published in JAMIA, Web-scale Pharmacovigilance: Listening to Signals From the Crowd, authored by Ryen W. White, ISCB members Nicholas P. Tatonetti and Nigam H. Shah, ISCB Fellow Russ Altman, and Eric Horvitz.
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/05/amiajnl-2012-001482.abstract
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/unreported-side-effects-of-drugs-found-using-internet-data-study-finds.html

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