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Using Twitter to investigate opinions about multiple sclerosis treatments: a descriptive, exploratory study [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4bu]
Sreeram Ramagopalan, Radek Wasiak, Andrew P. Cox

“We present here, to the best of our knowledge, the first analysis of social media for MS treatments. A significant proportion of tweets did contain non-neutral sentiment about MS treatments, and the distribution of sentiment score was different between treatments. Thus it appears that Twitter can be a potential resource to understand patient opinion about MS treatments.”

Other newly indexed articles

Discovery of functional non-coding conserved regions in the α-synuclein gene locus [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4v9]
Lori Sterling, Michael Walter, Dennis Ting, Birgitt Schüle

The Open Science Peer Review Oath [v1; ref status: awaiting peer review, https://f1000r.es/4ou]
Jelena Aleksic, Adrian Alexa, Teresa K Attwood, Neil Chue Hong, Martin Dahlö, Robert Davey, Holger Dinkel, Konrad U Förstner, Ivo Grigorov, Jean-Karim Hériché, Leo Lahti, Dan MacLean, Michael L Markie, Jenny Molloy, Maria Victoria Schneider, Camille Scott, Richard Smith-Unna, Bruno Miguel Vieira, as part of the AllBio: Open Science & Reproducibility Best Practice Workshop

Case Report: Rare occurrence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa osteomyelitis of the right clavicle in a patient with IgA nephropathy [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/37r]
Aishwarya Damodaran, Anusha Rohit, Georgi Abraham, Sanjeev Nair, Anand Yuvaraj