Clinicaltrials.gov

For the patient or healthcare professional seeking current information about alternatives to conventional treatments, for the investigator in a field of research concerned with serious illness, for the pharmaceutical or biotechnology company recruiting volunteers to test a product, and for government agencies tracking the results of drug or surgical device experimentation, clinical trials are an important means to an end. Broadly defined as any research study using human volunteers to test the relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome, clinical trials are also a vast, intensely complex network of people, products, organizations, protocols and data. Whether randomized or...