Clinical Trials Web Site Advances Patient Care

摘要

Recognizing the demand for easy access information about clinical trials, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched the first phase of a database for consumers. Known as Clinical Trials.gov, the database, developed under the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, contains information on more than 4,000 federal and private medical studies at more than 47,000 locations nationwide. The law required establishment of a registry for both federally and privately funded trials on "drugs for serious or life-threatening diseases and conditions."