An interesting article in today’s WSJ discusses how patients with an exceptionally rare disease – in this case, spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) – used social networks to find each other, to organize, and ultimately to drive research efforts into this otherwise obscure condition. This story highlights the value of social networks to link individual [...] Read More...
Filed under: health, Social Media, Pharma & Healthcare, Innovation & Science, byline=David Shaywitz, Pfizer, PatientsLikeMe, Coronary artery dissection, Rare disease, Social network, Cleveland Clinic, The Wall Street Journal