Improving Healthcare, One Search at a Time
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By combing through 100 million search queries on Bing, Yahoo, and Google, Microsoft Research Lab co-director Eric Horvitz and his colleagues were able to discover a previously unknown interaction between two commonly prescribed drugs. Horvitz says the method might detect dangerous drug interactions earlier than the FDA’s warning system.
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Eric Horvitz
Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow and director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond, Washington.
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