Peer Review Gets a Whole New Meaning: Clinical Trials Turn to Social Media

When they coined the term “peer review”, they probably weren’t thinking of social media, but that might be about to change. A new clinical trial studying Lou Gehrig’s disease used social media to help conduct the study.

When they coined the term “peer review”, they probably weren’t thinking of social media, but that might be about to change. A new clinical trial studying Lou Gehrig’s disease used social media to help conduct the study.

The study was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, and it looked at the effect of lithium on the progression of Lou Gehrig’s disease. The study, which based its data on the contributions of 596 patients, found that lithium does not have any impact on the progression of the disease.

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