National Institutes of Health
The links below from the NIH will help you find information on current clinical trials and access an online library of over 17 million biomedical articles.
Clinical Trials Registry at the NIH
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted on a wide range of diseases and conditions in the United States and around the world. The site will provide information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
New guidelines have been announced stating the types of trials that must be registered with ClinicalTrials.gov. Generally, all Phase 2-4 trials of drugs and biologics, and trials of devices need to be registered by Dec 26, 2007. Guidance can be found at the above link. Penalties for failing to register applicable trials are reported to be serious.
US National Library of Medicine - MEDLINE
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institues of Health that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
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