Articles

• Clinical Trials articles from PubMed of the National Library of Medicine.  The articles listed here tend to be highly technical research papers, but careful searching of the articles can often uncover important and useful information.  

Clinical Trials

• Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service.  "You can use this site to find a wealth of information about clinical research, including listings of more than 41,000 active industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA. Our site is designed to be an open resource for patients interested in participating in clinical trials and for research professionals."
• ClinicalTrials.gov.  A service of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  "ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. A clinical trial (also clinical research) is a research study in human volunteers to answer specific health questions. Interventional trials determine whether experimental treatments or new ways of using known therapies are safe and effective under controlled environments. Observational trials address health issues in large groups of people or populations in natural settings.
  
  ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains approximately 12,300 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry. Studies listed in the database are conducted in all 50 States and in over 100 countries. ClinicalTrials.gov receives over 3 million page views per month and hosts approximately 17,000 visitors daily."
• Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR).  "On this web site you will find information regarding the mission and goals of the Registry, how to become a participating transplant center, Registry news and reports and links to general information about islet/beta cell transplants. Participating Transplant Centers, CITR Committees, and participating organizations may access secured CITR information through this web site (Secured Access)." 

Organizations Concerned with Clinical Trials

• Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB).  "The Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) is a national clinical research group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago and its Statistical Center located at Duke University. The CALGB was founded in 1956 with a goal of bringing together clinical oncologists and laboratory investigators to develop better treatments for cancer. Since 1956, CALGB has grown into a national network of 29 university medical centers, over 225 community hospitals and more than 3000 oncology specialists who collaborate in clinical research studies aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality from cancer, relating the biological characteristics of cancer to clinical outcomes and developing new strategies for the early detection and prevention of cancer."
• Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG).  "The Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) is one of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) funded cooperative cancer research groups. GOG is the only group which focuses its research on women with pelvic malignancies, such as cancer of the ovary, uterus, and cervix.
  
  The GOG was organized in 1970 by a group of farsighted gynecologic surgeons with special interest in quality clinical research. They recognized the need for a collaborative research effort, not only among institutions, but also among the various disciplines involved in the treatment of women with gynecologic cancers. Prior to that time, the fundamental basis of clinical practice in gynecologic cancer consisted of reports from individual investigators largely derived from case reports and retrospective nonrandomized reviews. The GOG was among the first organizations to adopt a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, prospective approach to the management of pelvic malignancies in women."
• Institute for Global Ethics.  "...To promote ethical behavior in individuals, institutions, and nations through research, public discourse, and practical action." 
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).  From the Department of Health and Human Services.  
• National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP).  "The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) is a clinical trials cooperative group supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). We have a more than 40-year history of designing and conducting clinical trials that have changed the way breast cancer is treated, and, more recently, prevented. It was the NSABP's breast cancer studies that led to the establishment of lumpectomy plus radiation over radical mastectomy as the standard surgical treatment for breast cancer. We were also the first to demonstrate that adjuvant therapy could alter the natural history of breast cancer, increasing survival rates, and the first to demonstrate on a large scale the preventive effects of the drug tamoxifen in breast cancer.
  
  Since its beginning the NSABP has enrolled more than 60,000 women and men in clinical trials in breast and colorectal cancer. We are headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and have research sites at nearly 200 major medical centers, university hospitals, large oncology practice groups, and health maintenance organizations in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia. At those sites and their satellites, more than 5000 physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals conduct NSABP treatment and prevention trials. Their presence at local hospitals and medical facilities means that state-of-the-art clinical trials can be provided to patients near their homes."
• Pediatric Oncology Group (POG).
• Society for Clinical Trials.  "The Society for Clinical Trials, created in 1978, is an international professional organization dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge about the design, conduct and analysis of government and industry-sponsored clinical trials and related health care research methodologies." 
• Society of Clinical Research Associates, Inc.  "The Society of Clinical Research Associates, Inc., is a non-profit, professional organization dedicated to the continuing education and development of clinical research professionals."