social networks like any other technology, can bring benefit or harm, depending on the use of them. If patient networks increasingly active on the Internet, there are examples of both. This week the journal Nature Biotechnology has published an article that reviews the use of lithium, a treatment is not regulated by patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig sickness, disease or illness cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Although the work has concluded that the treatment is not useful, it has also demonstrated a new possibility of doing science through the so-called social web or Web 2.0.
Moreover, also in this week, the journal Nature "gave an astonishing account of controversy that was taking place in Canada, and reflects the huge potential of social networks of patients, although in this If everything could be due to an alleged deception or at least a hypothesis which has the backing of the scientific community.
More than 500 Facebook groups of patients with multiple sclerosis have led to a debate in the American country on the alleged need for public funding of research and treatment based on the theory of Dr. Paolo Zamboni, of the University of Ferrara , Italy.
This doctor believed that multiple sclerosis, a disease for which no cure exists, is due to a condition in the veins, and has proposed to widen these vascular vessels, in an address known as venoplastia could be a useful therapy . The problem is that the scientific community believes that multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune enfermadad has nothing to do with the processes described Zambomi.
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