1. RareShare (http://rareshare.org/) is a central social networking site for victims of various extremely rare conditions. These innovations are not totally unprecedented: in Innovator's Prescription, Christensen, Grossman, and Hwang note that ancient Greek physicians practiced a sort of crowdsourcing. They would take a patient with an unidentified illness and lay him down in the middle of the agora;Oliver Sacks describes the web-based community of achromatopsia sufferers, whose debilitating genetic condition results in total color blindness,1998
2. Big Data Analytics for Device-Driven Data Will Drive Even Bigger Change;Nicholas Gonzalez;UC Davis Law Review,2013
3. Cure in the Code. For an outline of the potentially lethal effects of the FDA's sluggish procedures, see Nick Gillespie;FDA medical regulations, see Huber,2002