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Editorial
. 2008 Sep;26(9):953.
doi: 10.1038/nbt0908-953.

Calling all patients

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Editorial

Calling all patients

No authors listed. Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

Disease-orientated consumer online communities radically change the way in which individuals monitor their health, but they could also create new ways of testing treatments and speed patient recruitment into clinical trials.

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  • The power of social networking in medicine.
    Brownstein CA, Brownstein JS, Williams DS 3rd, Wicks P, Heywood JA. Brownstein CA, et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Oct;27(10):888-90. doi: 10.1038/nbt1009-888. Nat Biotechnol. 2009. PMID: 19816437 No abstract available.

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