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Awards and Articles

Below is a list of awards and articles for which CenterWatch has been recognized as a top resource for quality information on clinical research. Please click on any of the items below to view text from the article, or visit the web site that issued the award.







CenterWatch was featured as a top health site in the 2002 World Almanac. Click here to find out more and to purchase a copy.




 

 

 

CenterWatch Clinical Trials
A Web Review by ASK's Darren Gowen

This web site, www.centerwatch.com, contains information on world-wide clinical trials of more than 7,500 drugs. You can search or browse a listing of recently FDA approved drugs by therapeutic area. You may be surprised to recognize some of the drugs in the listing. These most likely are variations of the drugs your child is receiving, as each way a drug is administered also requires FDA approval. Through this site you can search for more than 35,000 clinical trials by either therapeutic area or geographic region. This searchable database includes the clinical trials from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ database, and all government- and industry-sponsored trials now being conducted at the NIH's Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

The Industry Professionals section has a directory of profiles on more than 150 clinical research centers. It can be searched either by therapeutic expertise or geographic region. MCV has a profile in the directory. This section can be an important resource to find the locations of medical institutions offering the type of treatment your child requires. They can notify you by e-mail if your profile matches the needs of any trials.

This web site is a unique place to bookmark as your starting point for finding information.

Newsletter, Summer 2000 Issue



 

Effort grows to teach risks, benefits of clinical trials

Thomson CenterWatch statistics referenced regarding the number of clinical trials worldwide, the number of clinical trials in the United States and the length of delay for the average clinical trial.

By Julie Bell ,Baltimore Sun Staff, Thursday June 9th, 2005



 

 

Is There a Doctor Online?
by Rachel Ballweg

Two Sites Worth Checking Out www.centerwatch.com

Patients with serious medical conditions will want to bookmark this site on their computers. It lists more than 41,000 industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It also can tell you what government-funded research studies are under way at the National Institutes of Health.

Better Homes and Gardens, June 2000


Breast Cancer Information: The only thing that seems to grow faster than your kids are the advances in breast-cancer research. Almost monthly there's a major breakthrough or announcement. Here are the best places to help you stay on top of this disease.

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service, a roundup of the latest in treatment, www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat29.html

Better Homes and Gardens web-site, June 2000




BioWorld Today

Trial Transparency System Doesn't Need Law

By Aaron Lorenzo, Washington Editor, BioWorld Today
Wednesday June 1st, 2005
Reprinted with permission from Thomson BioWorld
www.bioworld.com

WASHINGTON–With a bill kicking around the halls of Congress related to clinical trial transparency, some are scratching their heads over a need for such legislation.

"The bill would mandate public disclosure of not only active clinical trials," said Dan McDonald, the vice president of Thomson CenterWatch in Boston, "but also clinical trial result information, which is in itself a very noble cause."

He's not sure the proposed law is essential. McDonald agreed that companies should make data available for consumers, but many already do just that through various registries, and his chief concern lies in the bill's requirement of posting on a central internet registry.

Such an effort already has created the www.clinicaltrials.gov website, though that has had light usage at best.

The national registry, which went live in 2000 after being established through a $215 million appropriation, has yet to receive full compliance. McDonald said not quite half the trials that should be on the www.clinicaltrials.gov website are posted.

"There have been no FDA crackdowns on pharmaceutical companies that we know of, to get them to post this information," he told BioWorld Today. "So our point is that it really hasn't worked, not the way it was intended."

Instead, companies have posted clinical trial data on commercial registries, and have done so for about a decade. With a system already in place, McDonald said there isn't necessarily a need for legislation such as the Fair Access to Clinical Trials (FACT) Act of 2005, which Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced in February. Its authors have proposed that the law create a registry on information for all clinical trials conducted to test the safety or effectiveness of any drug, biological product or device, including approved products, intended to treat serious or life-threatening diseases and conditions.

McDonald added that pressure for a government-mandated clinical trials registry also is coming from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

But the FACT Act is of concern to companies that fear submitting proprietary information to the registry.

"It would disclose detailed information about the design of studies, the indication targeted and a little bit about the molecules themselves to competitors," McDonald said. "Obviously, that's a big concern."

Other worries for companies relate to gathering the volumes of data to comply with requirements for such a registry, as well as determining which results, positive or negative, are worth reporting.

Among clinical trial posting services on the market are registries managed by CenterWatch. McDonald, who conceded that his position might seem self-serving, said eight of the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies use Center- Watch. He pointed out that with such an infrastructure in place, the legislation would be surplus.

Some of those drug companies also post data on their own websites, through guidelines suggested by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and other international pharmaceutical associations. On CenterWatch, consumers can navigate through its registries to seek information on trials, products and research centers, an open-resource public service that does not require registration or personal information.

Given those existing resources, McDonald recommended that all interested stakeholders, including Congressional members, health care companies, patient advocacy groups and commercial registry businesses, work collectively together to create a better disclosure and transparency solution that doesn't duplicate an existing mandate.

"You could appropriate millions of more dollars to create another public registry that might take five to seven years to be populated and might never be complete," McDonald said. "Or you could get behind not necessarily CenterWatch itself, but maybe a consortium of current registries and get the commercial/industry side of this involved in the discussion. That really isn't happening now."

The FACT Act, also labeled S.470, has been referred to the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. In addition to Dodd and Grassley, other co-sponsors include Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.).




In addition to what they charge for, CenterWatch has a wealth of free information for the public on its site, and Roche decided that would ensure its data had the highest possible visibility.

The Center for Business Intelligence, April 27, 2006




Our ability to build strategic relationships is being increasingly recognized as a key differentiator, with Kendle recently being named the 'Top CRO to Work With' in the Thomson CenterWatch 2007 survey of U.S. investigative sites."

CNN Money, August 1, 2007




"Your doctor can help you decide on a possible treatment and may be able to locate an upcoming trial - or refer you to a specialist who can. Other good sources include:

The National Institutes of Health, which lists government-funded studies of virtually all major diseases.CenterWatch which lists some 7,000 privately funded clinical trials at www.centerwatch.com."

Consumer Reports, December 1998



Back to Top

"With the advent of disease state management, the Internet has witnessed a meteoric rise of online clinical trials resources. A couple of years ago, the granddaddy of clinical trial sites, CenterWatch, stood alone. CenterWatch is a fee-based clearing house of information on trials around the world in a variety of areas, and it is a good place to start......"

COR Healthcare Resources 1998



 

 

 

According to the '2007 CenterWatch National Survey of Study Volunteers', presented at the Drug Information Association (DIA) conference in Atlanta in June, the most popular motivation for patients to participate in clinical trials was "to help myself and others/ to advance science" (81 per cent); "to find a better treatment" (75 per cent) coming in closely behind, followed by "to receive higher quality medical care" (51 per cent).

Drug Researcher, September 9, 2007



 

 

 

Russia is on track to become the next big clinical research market; global pharma R&D spending is projected to top $100 billion in 2007; and convenience is the number one concern of patients participating in clinical trials. These are just three of the hundreds of data points and research observations featured in State of the Clinical Trials Industry 2007, an annual sourcebook produced by Thomson CenterWatch, a leading provider of information and solutions to the clinical trials industry, and a business within of The Thomson Corporation.

Earth Times, May 3, 2007



 

Financial Links Section
CenterWatch.com

This site is designed for investors interested in the biotech industry. CenterWatch is full of information for investors who want to do serious research on clinical trials of drugs and treatments of various diseases. Definitely not for the casual investor, but exactly the kind of primary research needed to invest in biotech companies. www.centerwatch.com

e-com magazine May-June 2000



2002 & 2003 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

 

In 2003 CenterWatch web site won the award for Best Health/Healthcare Content - Other Health Sites, in the fourth annual eHealthcare Leadership Awards. CenterWatch won the Platinum award, which is the top award for this category. The program drew nearly 1,200 entries and web sites were judged based on a standard of Internet excellence and how they compared with others in their organization's classification. One hundred four individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet evaluated entries.

In 2002 CenterWatch.com received the Silver Award for Best Health/Healthcare Content - General Health Site from the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Web sites were judged based on standard of Internet excellence and how they compared with others in thier organizations classification. Eighty individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet evaluated entries.



 

 

 

According to CenterWatch, the Indian clinical trials market has grown from $35 million in 2002 to $120 million in 2006. The market is estimated to be worth $250-300 million by 2010. As a consequence, data volumes generated from these trials has also risen.

EXPRESS Pharma, October 24, 2007



 

 

Diagnostics biz set to boom
Ravi Krishnan, Financial Express - Bombay,India

CenterWatch is quoted regarding the future growth in the pharmaceutical industry in a story on the anticipated boom of clinical research outsourcing to India.



 

 

Cavet Emptor
By Adrienne Sanders

Type in "cancer" on Yahoo and you'll get 2,285 hits, many of them for the astrological sign otherwise known as Moonchildren. Here's a guide to help you avoid misfires, quacks and bogus cures on the 15,000 health-related sites:Centerwatch
www.centerwatch.com Offers more than 35,000 clinical trials that are actively recruiting patients including a summary of research and contact information.

Forbes Magazine, April 17, 2000




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Medical Sites on the Web: Good Sites for General Health InfoCenterWatch (www.centerwatch.com) -- Here's where you can learn how to get in on clinical trials."

FORTUNE, January 12, 1999


Reaching an African-American Audience
According to CenterWatch Monthly, sponsors are still struggling to increase diversity within the subject pool for clinical trials: "In spite of a growing need for trial subjects, sponsor companies’ tolls and techniques for increasing diversity remain inconsistent, unsophisticated, and underdeveloped."

By Donna Beasley, February 2006

Sourcing the Deciding Process
To better understand the role and impact of outsourcing departments and how they are changing, Thomson CenterWatch conducted an in-depth survey of major biopharmaceutical companies during the summer and autumn of 2003.

By Mary Jo Lamberti





CENTERWATCH.COM: The site offers brief summaries of trials for all kinds of ills. For example, we found dozens of studies all over the country on ways to treat high cholesterol. For more information, you submit your query through a form that is privacy protected.

Good Housekeeping, October 2006
Join a Research Study, Page 78



 

 

 

 

As seen in the new book, Healthcare Online for Dummies®
By Judi Wolinsky, Howard Wolinsky



 

 

A good resource to help you get more information on clinical trials and how they work is CenterWatch, a Boston-based company that tracks the industry. They also offer several helpful publications including "Volunteering for a Clinical Trial" and "Understanding the Informed Consent Process" ($3 each) which can be ordered online at www.centerwatch.com or by calling (800) 765-9647.

Herald Today, November 4, 2006



 

 

Is Clinical Research For You?
Thomson CenterWatch publishes The CRC’s Guide to Coordinating Clinical Research and Becoming a Successful Clinical Research Investigator, which are helpful to those just starting out in those roles.

By Dr. David Ginsberg, October 2005



 

 

According to Thomson CenterWatch, 20 to 30 per cent of clinical trials are being conducted in ascending regions. Additionally, pharmaceutical companies are using this as an opportunity to build relationships with key physicians and clinicians in these regions as they are in the best position to ultimately promote and prescribe the drug undergoing the trial when it comes to market.

Irish Medical Times, April 4, 2007



 

 

According to the Boston-based CenterWatch information service which follows the clinical test industry, there are about 80,000 tests under way each year in the United States.

Lexington Herald-Leader, April 7, 2006



Protect yourself on the Web "6 Trustworthy Health Sites"

The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)

Healthfinder

National Library of Medicine

CBSHealthWatch by Medscape

Mayo Clinic

CenterWatch

Marie Claire, March, 2000



 

 

"National Registry of Clinical Trials"
NewsBytes Section

CenterWatch, a Boston-based information services company, is completing the development of a national registry of clinical trials for use by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The CenterWatch Registry has been designed to meet the requirements described in Section 113 of the Food and Drug Administration Act of 1997. This legislation calls for the National Institutes of Health, working with other agencies and companies, to coordinate the establishment of various data banks for public access to clinical trials information.

The CenterWatch Registry is designed to be flexible and easy to use by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. To preserve the integrity of the information provided, sponsor summaries will be reviewed and overseen by an Institutional Review Board before being posted. The CenterWatch Registry will list several thousand study summaries and will be integrated with the CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service, and established Website providing listings of more than 41,000 individual IRB-approved clinical trials. CenterWatch estimates that this year alone, the CenterWatch Registry and Clinical Trials Listing Services-along with their coordinated online and print affiliations-will reach more than 4 million Americans. For more information, visit the CenterWatch Website at www.centerwatch.com

MDComputing May/June 2000





Clinical trials Web sites: Delivering on the promise?
By Catherine Zandonella
April 2005

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched
Medical News Today
United Kingdom
April 17th, 2005

Story covering new clinical trials registry and trial results database developed by Thomson CenterWatch for Roche, located at www.roche-trials.com



Medicine On The Net

"One of the best such sites is CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service. This site allows patients to search for trials in a wide number of categories. It can also notify patients by e-mail when a clinical trial for a specific condition is posted on the site. 'People who live in certain areas of the country or whose doctors are not savvy about trials may be at a disadvantage. We're trying to even the playing field a bit,' says Ken Jacobs with Internet Services at CenterWatch. Unlike most sites that maintain information about clinical trials, this site is not restricted to a single specialty or condition. It includes clinical trial listings, newly approved drug therapies, research centers, and industry provider profiles. All can be searched by keyword."

—Medicine On The Net, January 1999

Clinical trials Web sites: Delivering on the promise?

Article discussing the increased use of web sites featuring clinical trials. Centerwatch provides some statistics about their own site.
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—Medicine on the Net, April 2005



 

 

 

Mental Health Net
Web Resources CenterWatch, Inc.

An international listing of clinical research trials. You can use this listing to search for clinical trials, find out information about physicians and medical centers performing clinical research, and to learn about drug therapies newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration. A well designed site. Easy to navigate.

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More Chinese Get Free Drugs In Clinical Trials

As Western drug companies plot strategies to tap that market, many are basing clinical trials in China. Roche has at least five trials in Shanghai listed on Thomson corp.’s CenterWatch, a drug-trial listing service based in Boston.

By Elena Berton, The New York Times, February 14, 2006

"A Long List of Clinical Trials"

"For the desperately ill, new drugs can never come out quickly enough. The CenterWatch web site can tell such people where new drugs are being tested. The site lists more than 7,000 clinical trials for drugs and other medical treatments. Nearly all of them are recruiting patients at test centers nationwide.

The site owned by CenterWatch, a Boston publishing company, began three years ago and has quickly become a medical and on-line sensation. Each month, the CenterWatch site receives 100,000 visits from 85,000 patients or their advocates. And the site still has room to grow: 7,000 clinical trials is roughly about 10 percent of the nations total. 'The web site is not a big profit maker for us,' said Ken Getz, a principle and publisher of CenterWatch. 'But it addresses a critical need for patients who are eager for alternative treatments.'

Navigating through the site's bounty of clinical trials is a breeze. The trials are organized into 20 broad disease categories, which include everything from oncology to dental/maxielofacial surgery. Within each grouping are specific ailments, with the trials for each disease organized by states. People searching for a specific clinical trial should find it quickly here, especially if they suffer from a common ailment. On a recent day, there were 423 clinical trials underway for hypertension, 73 for H.I.V. and 69 for rheumatoid arthritis. Many of the trials provided an E-mail response box for speedy enrollment.

O.K. You're not sick, just short on rent money. CenterWatch may still be for you. Many of the trials pay stipends and some of the medical procedures are non-invasive. For example, researchers at Hill Top Research Inc. in Birmingham, Ala., are paying up to $250 for women volunteers for an acne study. If you don't qualify, there are over 21 other clinical trials for acne that are recruiting patients.

The listings on this site are exhaustive. There are even clinical trials for children. Boys and Girls 12 years old or older can earn $160 by taking an investigational medication for strep throat at the Allergy and Asthma Institute in Louisville, KY.

CenterWatch has become a crucial tool for some patients to come to terms with their illness. Women who have had mastectomies can take a drug at the Pain Trials Center in Boston as part of a study to manage pain from that surgery. 'One reason our site has become popular, I think, is because people are less trusting of a single medical opinion' said Mr. Getz. 'They are taking more responsibility for their health education.'"

The New York Times, September 10, 1998



The News and Observer

In 2005, CROs generated about $14 billion in revenue worldwide, according to Thomson CenterWatch, an industry trade publication. By 2010, CROs are projected to generate $25.9 billion worldwide.

The News & Observer, October 20, 2007

Drug trials loom larger
Spate of recalls spurs pharmaceutical companies to err on side of caution

Thomson CenterWatch statistics quoted regarding the size of the clinical trials market in a story on the growing number of drugs entering clinical trials.

By Sabine Vollmer, Staff Writer, January 27, 2005



Reference: To Find Out More, Pick Your Rx

No matter what your question is, there’s probably a book or Web site that has an answer. Here’s a healthy guide to a selection of the best around...

www.centerwatch.com The CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service maintains a list of current experiments, a matching service and profiles of the centers conducting research for potential participants, researchers and interested observers.

Newsweek, Fall & Winter 2001

"If you decide to join a drug study, talk with your physician first and then be prepared to do a little digging to find one that's right for you. For general information start with CenterWatch's Web site, which lists clinical trials for everything from diabetes to sinus infections."

Newsweek, October 19, 1998



As a result, annual CRO industry revenues have skyrocketed from around $7bn in 2001 to a whopping $17.8bn today, and according to Thomson CenterWatch, CROs played a substantial role in 64 per cent of Phase I, II and III trials in 2003, compared to only 28 per cent ten years earlier.

Outsourcing-Pharma, October 3, 2007



HPV vaccine looks promising against cancer
Palm Beach Post
Palm Beach, FL USA
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

CenterWatch.com noted as a resource for information about a specific clinical trial that was discussed in the story.



Clinical Trials: What patients know and need to know Mainstream newspapers do a good job of explaining the specifics of clinical trials, according to a study by Thomson CenterWatch.

Pharmaceutical Executive, October 2005



Medical testing suffers from a lack of volunteers

The difficulty of finding subjects "is the number-one roadblock to getting drug trials done."

Thomson CenterWatch statistics quoted and management interviewed in an in-depth article on the difficulty the drug industry is having finding volunteers for clinical trials.

By Virginia A. Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer, April 06, 2004



"Volunteer for a clinical study: You might be a part of the control group that gets the current treatment, says Dr. Smith. But you might also be a part of the group that is getting a treatment that scientists think may be better than anything else available. And you could get your diagnostic tests free or at a reduced cost. For a comprehensive listing of clinical studies by disease, call CenterWatch in Boston at 617-948-5100 or check out their Web site: www.centerwatch.com."

Prevention Magazine, April 1999



A Shrinking Target
Clinical trials are taking longer, and costing more, as competition for patients heats up
By Clare Kittredge
The Scientist Magazine
April 11, 2005
Volume 19, Issue 7, pg. 46

Thomson CenterWatch statistics quoted and management interviewed in an in-depth article on patient recruitment.




"Since 1995 the CenterWatch Web site (www.centerwatch.com) has allowed study centers to post trials meeting FDA guidelines; prospective patients scroll through thousands of offerings to search for a match. If you don't find a study taking place near you, you can sign up to receive an e-mail alert whenever a new listing is posted. There's also a section with background information for readers who need to know what to ask before enrolling in a trial. "

Tufts University Health and Nutrition letter, appearing in Reader's Digest January 1999



It’s hard to get firm numbers, but the Boston-based medical information and publishing firm CenterWatch, which tracks clinical trials, estimates that more than 40,000 are in progress, involving more than 20 million subjects. There are very few documented examples in which research subjects were seriously harmed. Looking at studies that led to the approval of one-third of all new drugs between 1987 and 2001, CenterWatch found that one in 30 subjects experienced a serious side effect.

Reason Online, October 2007



According to the 2005 Thomson CenterWatch survey of 612 investigative sites in the United States, the single most important attribute to a successful sponsor-site relationship was organization and preparation, followed by well-trained monitors, good protocol design, and responsive communications.

R&D Directions, September 2006



These experimental therapies are available only though clinical trials at participating research centers locally and nationally. (For more information about enrolling in a trial go to http://centerwatch.com and http://clinicaltrials.gov).

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 29, 2006



TIn 2005, CROs generated about $14 billion in revenue worldwide, according to Thomson CenterWatch, an industry trade publication. By 2010, CROs are projected to generate $25.9 billion worldwide.

By Sabine Vollmer, Raleigh News & Observer, October 24, 2007



"Net holds wide range of quality"

Dr. John Renner, founder of the Consumer Health Institute in Independence, Mo., tracks medical misinformation on line. 'Most stuff on the Internet is good," he says, but adds there are "quacks" on line as well. "Who said snake oil was gone? It's back and it's at 14.4 (kilobits per second)." His "best" medical sites:

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service - lists ongoing research trials

International Cancer Information Center - A National Cancer Institute database

Online Health Network - has hot topics, physician Q&As...

USA Life, March 6, 1996

Costs, regulations move more drug tests outside USA

By Julie Smith, USA Today Web Site, Health and Behavior, May 16, 2005

Thomson CenterWatch statistics quoted regarding the number of clinical trials going on world wide in a story on the current trend of pharmaceutical companies moving their human drug testing outside the US.



 

 

Health Online: Drug Deals More than 9.5 million prescriptions were filled over the Internet last year, reports Cyber Dialogue. Many health sites link to sellers such as Planetrx.com, DrugEmporium.com, drugstore.com, vitalRx.com, yesrx.com, and prioritypharmacy.com. The Web also offers hundreds of sites to buy drugs from overseas pharmacies (30 tablets of Amoxicillin costs $25 here vs. $12 for 100 tablets overseas, according to one service). Yes, it's legal to buy drugs overseas for personal use if they're approved for use here and you have a valid prescription. Caution: Some overseas sites might send counterfeit, addictive, out-of-date or poorly labeled medication, leaving an injured patient with no recourse.

www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety.htm

After troubles with the diabetes drug Rezulin and the diet drugs Fen/Phen, consumers want to be on top of the latest drug safety information. This is the site to find out about recalls, market withdrawals, labeling changes and other safety notifications ordered by the FDA.

www.centerwatch.com

A listing of 41,000 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials, plus drugs recently approved by the FDA.

USA Weekend, June 2-4, 2000



 

When Drug Trials Go Wrong, Patients Have Little Recourse

By Sarah Rubenstein, The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2008

World-wide, the number of industry trials rose to 59000 in 2006 from 40000 in 2000, according to an estimate from CenterWatch.


How to Find the Latest on Results of Clinical Trials

As Groups Debate Access to Research, Existing Sources of Information Are Growing
By Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2004; Page D1

Roche Launches Clinical Trial Registry, Results Database

By Anita Greil
Dow Jones Newswires, appearing on Wall Street Journal Online
April 15th, 2005

Story covering new clinical trials registry and trial results database developed by Thomson CenterWatch for Roche, as well as coverage of other actions taken by pharmaceutical companies in regards to the transparency of information about their clinical trials.


Encore (A Special Report) --- Playing Guinea Pig: More clinical trials need older volunteers; Should you raise your hand?

Kelly Greene
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

If you do decide to participate in a study, where do you start? First, you must sign an "informed consent" form, which spells out the risks. Unfortunately, about 20% of the people signing such forms "don't even bother to read them," says Ken Getz, president of Thomson CenterWatch in Boston, a unit of Toronto-based media company Thomson Corp. that provides online listings of clinical trials. And three-quarters of the 1,565 study volunteers who responded to a CenterWatch survey in 2002 said they didn't know what questions to ask before enrolling in a study.

Mr. Getz advises asking the research center conducting the study to disclose any ethical concerns considered by the review board that approved the trial. Each study's sponsor must assemble what's called an institutional review board, made up of doctors and scientists charged with making sure that the study is performed safely, following federal guidelines.

The Wall Street Journal, August 2003



Health
CenterWatch

For those battling an illness, getting access to information about the latest treatments and medical procedures is crucial. This site, produced by a publisher of books and newsletters for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, lists dozens of clinical trials taking place at medical centers around the country. While half the site is geared towards those in the health-care industry, the "patient resources" section is clear and easy to use. Visitors can search for clinical trials by disease. The trials are further broken down by location, so patients can find a trial close to their home. For example, the site lists 151 trials for the treatment of depression. Details of some of the trials are skimpy however. Often, the site doesn't detail which medications are being tested, how long the trial lasts or possible side effects of treatment. The site does give contact information for the trial, so interested patients can follow up. Users can sign up to receive e-mail messages notifying them when a new trial related to a specific illness is added to the site.

WSJ.com


"The Internet is sprouting a rash of Web sites and joint ventures that seek to help remedy the prioblem by reaching the millions of consumers who surf the Web for health-care information. CenterWatch Inc., Boston, says it attracts 250,000 unique visitors a month to its CenterWatch.com Web site, where it lists about 41,000 clinical trials."

Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2000


Is a Trial Right for You? Where to Find Answers, Resources
By January W. Payne
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; HE01

CenterWatch.com noted as a resource for patients looking for clinical trials information.



Using Humans as Guinea Pigs
Now, more than 75 percent of all clinical trials paid for by pharmaceutical companies are done in private test centers or doctors' offices, according to CenterWatch, a Boston compiler of clinical trial data…As drug companies try to get new drugs to market, time is literally money. They lose as much as $5 million a day waiting to get approval of new medications, according to CenterWatch.

By David Evans, Michael Smith and Liz Willen, The Washington Times, January 8, 2006



Only three months after deciding to create an electronic clinical trial registry and results database, Roche launched http://www.roche-trials.com on April 15, 2005. The website is provided by CenterWatch.

Yahoo! Finance, Biz.yahoo.com, May 22, 2006




Health Sites You Can Trust
Best Clinical Trials Resource

CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service
www.centerwatch.com

CenterWatch is a nexus for resources related to the clinical testing of drugs, with separate sections devoted to patients and research professionals. The site provides in-depth background about how clinical trials are conducted and regulated. Those interested in participating in programs can search the database of national and international trials. Drugs newly approved by the FDA are indexed by disease.

By Catherine Calacanis October 2000,
YAHOO Internet Life - Gold Star Sites


"CenterWatch is not a cancer site per se, but it does have the most comprehensive database for clinical research. You can access several hundred listings of current trials for, say, breast cancer or bone marrow transplants. Links send you directly to the sites of the medical centers where the tests are taking place, and you can join mailing lists that notify you when new treatments become available."

Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1999



Incredibly Useful Site for 2/9/98
Clinical Trials Testing, Testing

If you or a loved one is suffering from a serious illness, and your hopes are focused on new developments in its treatment and cure, Clinical Trials might not be the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's certainly a flashlight to help you find the way. CenterWatch, a clinical trials listing service, has accumulated a database of all the current trials of new drugs and treatment methodologies currently ongoing in the U.S. Whether it's cancer your concerned about, or cardiovascular diseases, or problems involving gastroenterology, neurology, psychiatry, or any dozen others, you'll find it here. Just choose the general area of concern, then narrow your way down until you find trials germane to the illness you're interested in. Current clinical trials are listed by geographical location, so that you can either follow the progress. get in touch with those running the protocols, or even try to become a subject in the test. Either way, this can be an invaluable, possibly lifesaving, site to explore.

ZDNet, 2//9/98



In 25 years the number of therapeutic trials has multiplied by seven. Clinical trials companies are operating on every continent. The sector's turnover is growing by nearly 20% a year and reached $15.4bn in 2006.
Source: Thomson CenterWatch analysis of company reports, 2006.

Znet, June 8, 2007



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