User behavior on the internet is increasingly being recognized as a valuable source of health information. Now a team from Stanford University School of Medicine and Microsoft Research has shown how mining rich seams of data from users' search histories yields important information on the unreported side effects of drugs. They report their findings in the 6 March online issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Co-author Russ Altman is professor of bioengineering, of genetics and of medicine at Stanford...
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