It shouldn’t come as a surprise that by harvesting the massive data trove that is Reddit, one can find drug side effects that are underreported in clinical trials. Reminds us of a pharma client of ours who mentioned that they consider Apple a massive threat to their business – as the company has a humongous amount of data on healthy people, whereas pharma companies typically only have data on sick people.
Using artificial intelligence to scan more than 400,000 Reddit posts, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania documented numerous reports of possible GLP-1 side effects that may be underrecognized in clinical trials — including menstrual changes, fatigue, and temperature sensitivities.
