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Mayo study shows value of social media in clinical research

Ken Terry | Fierce Health IT | August 30, 2011

The use of social media and online networking promises to be important both in clinical trial recruitment and in clinical discovery. Read More »

More Data, Better Drugs: Genetech, PatientsLikeMe Ink Groundbreaking Research Pact

Ron Leuty | BiotechSF - San Francisco Business Times | April 7, 2014

Genentech Inc. will mine the deep online patient network of PatientsLikeMe to pinpoint ways of using patients' real experience with diseases and drugs for better research.  The five-year agreement is the first broad research collaboration between Cambridge, Mass.-based PatientsLikeMe and a drug company, but it also demonstrates how open-source research and social media are increasingly tapped by companies to get real-world insights into diseases and how patients respond to treatments.

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