Today's NYTimes reports on a number of startups hoping to crowdsource medical research. The approach seems especially promising for rare conditions that may have too small an audience for traditional research.
Patients’ everyday experiences in living with an illness are an enormous source of untapped data, he said; aggregated, those data could generate new hypotheses and avenues for research. “We’re really turning patients into scientists and changing the balance of power between clinicians and scientists and patients,” he said.
via nytimes.com
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