I found an article that speaks about the use of internet searches to find and correlate data from various online databases that may offer help in finding new treatments for cancer. The title of the paper is The Power of the Web in Cancer Drug Discovery and Clinical Trial Design: Research without a Laboratory? The article caught my attention, and appears to have good information for use by medical professionals. But as you probably already suspect, I have a few concerns with it.
Although it is a good idea to use the internet to find new treatments for cancer, the authors of the article give away their bias right in the title. continue reading…
