Search Engine Data Gives Early Warning Of Drug Side Effects by Sciencenow. Wired. March 7, 2013.
Unreported Side Effects Of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds by John Markoff. The New York Times. March 6, 2013.
This "Big Data" tool, using millions of search engine results could be a new tool to spot drug side effects that may have escaped notice in clinical trials and FDA investigations. The FDA instituted a program in 2008 that plans to monitor drug use by as many as 100 million people in the United States.
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