Discovering Drug Side Effects with Crowdsourcing(blog.crowdflower.com)
blog.crowdflower.com
Discovering Drug Side Effects with Crowdsourcing
http://blog.crowdflower.com/2013/03/discovering-drug-side-effects-with-crowdsourcing/
http://blog.crowdflower.com/2013/03/discovering-drug-side-effects-with-crowdsourcing/
Not sure how to grade the subjective results as they are interpreted by patients. But I guess a large sample size could probably help minimize that bias.
Recently there was another similar study which researchers were able to use Google search queries and data from Google trend to know about side effects , weeks - months before they were officially reported.
But this is just the start !