PatientsLikeMe Offering Rapid Patient Feedback On Clinical Trial Design
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Global online patient network PatientsLikeMe launches a service to inform clinical trial development with retrospective data mining and prospective research using its online patient network.
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