Veracuity Blog Twitter and Facebook as a source of pharmacovigilance data Social media use has substantially expanded over the last decade, with 321 million monthly users and 126 million daily users on Twitter. This year, Twitter made a few tweaks to its own user metric: instead of daily users, they count monetizable daily active users.…
Veracuity Blog Quality of evidence in pharmacovigilance Database WITHDRAWN lists 578 drugs that were pulled out of global markets due to safety reasons. Most importantly, the database contains information about therapeutic targets, off-targets, underlying mechanisms of toxicity involved, and biological pathways. In addition, the database maps single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs), genetic variations that are associated with toxicity…
Veracuity Blog The right drug at the right dose to the right patient: the value of pharmacogenomic information In April 2019, Mozilla internet health report published an article “23 reasons not to reveal your DNA” [1]. The primary reasons why people should worry about sharing their DNA with strangers are quite obvious – privacy concerns,…
Veracuity Blog Social media as a source of adverse drug effects People increasingly turn to online sources to search for health-related information, investigate options they have, and only then decide whether it is worth investing time and money to get the qualified opinion of a healthcare professional. Pew Research Center asked U.S. adults about their…