http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/07/how-our-web-searches-could-expose-drug-side-effects/?iid=hl-main-lead
Researches from Stanford University School of Medicine and Microsoft Research began searching for new symptoms of drug usage among the public. One way that they assumed people may vent drugged symptoms could be through the internet. With 6 million internet using volunteers, the researchers began their...research. They went through many histories, trying to find connections between people and their histories to other people. Through their research, the research team discovered a connection between an anti-depressant called paroxetine (Paxil) and a colesteral lowering medicine called pravastatin (Pravachol). The article also brings up an interesting use of Facebook, in which you can use a search to see if you have caught the flu from any of your friends.
Overall, this article is a bit random. Like many of Alexandra Sifferlin's articles, the diction in this one is fairly common and familiar, no big words aside from medicines and drugs. It does not really stay on one topic, but kind of bounces from one to another. The catchy title is quick to catch an eye, but the pieces falling afterward do not really give a clear answer to the question that the title implants in the reader's mind.
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