If two different medications are taken for two different reasons, many doctors may not fully understand what happens when they’re combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: patients’ search engine queries of “side effects.”
What really happens when you mix medications?
If two different medications are taken for two different reasons, many doctors may not fully understand what happens when they’re combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: patients’ search engine queries of “side effects.”