Epidemico

03/30/2017

Forecasting rare disease outbreaks with multiple data sources and real-world scenarios Virginia Tech Boston Children's Hospital University of Maryland

02/16/2017

Research shows antidepressant drugs used in ways unforeseen by manufacturers or reported to doctors GlaxoSmithKline

Post-marketing surveillance for medical products often relies on traditional, centralized reporting of adverse event (AE) reports. Cases of individuals misusing or abusing medications are often not submitted through formal adverse event reporting chains due to the sensitive nature of patients' exper...

02/01/2017

New paper alert! Detecting early signals in social media - collaborative research with Uppsala Monitoring Centre U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Booz Allen Hamilton

Previous studies have demonstrated how social media data can be used to augment existing pharmacovigilance processes by providing patient-generated insights on safety issues

01/09/2017

Can Twitter and Facebook be used to detect safety signals for medical products?

The rapid expansion of the Internet and computing power in recent years has opened up the possibility of using social media for pharmacovigilance. While this general concept has been proposed by many,

12/23/2016

Some good news as we head into 2017!

The results are in from the clinical trials of a new vaccine — and it looks like a potent weapon. In fact, they are already stockpiling it.

11/08/2016

Learn more about our Project Athena mobile app for crisis communications!

11/02/2016

Our state of the art work with rare diseases uses social media listening for safety and benefits, giving patients a voice.