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Patients Like Me beats Lancet Neurology by a mile

e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2010

Patient networks for the win! MIT Technology Review: “Earlier this month, the journal Lancet Neurology published a study showing that the generic drug lithium did nothing to slow the course of ALS … Eighteen months earlier, PatientsLikeMe, a for-profit patient networking site and data aggregator, had come to a similar conclusion, much more quickly and at much less cost.”

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  1. e-Patients and doctors both, wise up. If you haven’t already. | e-Patients.net says:
    June 15, 2010 at 6:18 am

    [...] we have the recent news that the PatientsLikeMe community beat Lancet to the punch, by a long shot, regarding lithium, [...]

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