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Search Engines Find Unpublished Drug Warnings
- The New York Times, Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:04 PM
Scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University for the first time managed to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration by using data from queries in Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines, reports The New York Times. The study is based on data-mining techniques similar to those used by services like Google Flu Trends.
