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Welcome to the American Pain Foundation Clinical Trials Resource Center, presented in partnership with CenterWatch, the leading publisher of information on clinical research for patients and their advocates and healthcare professionals. Please click on the links below to learn more about clinical research and new medical therapies for treating the diseases and conditions that interest you.


About Clinical Research
This section provides background information about the clinical trials process and what to expect when you volunteer to participate in a clinical trial.

Listing of Pain-Related Clinical Trials
This is a listing of U.S. and international clinical trials actively recruiting patients for indications related to pain and pain management. Use this listing to search for clinical trials by geographic region. Please check back regularly since this database is updated daily.

Listing of Studies at the National Institutes of Health
This listing includes government-funded clinical research studies being conducted by the various National Institutes of Health.

Email Notification Service
Register your email address to be notified when new clinical trials are posted to the database for the specific indication(s) of interest to you.

FDA Drug Approvals
This is a comprehensive listing of drugs that have recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The drugs are organized by therapeutic area.

Clinical Trials Results Database
This section is designed to disclose information on completed clinical studies. It is intended primarily to ensure healthcare providers, patients and their caregivers have ready access to key clinical study results.

Research Centers Conducting Clinical Trials
This directory provides detailed profiles of over several hundred clinical research centers specializing in neurology research. Research centers are organized geographically by state, city and center name.

CenterWatch Research Headlines
Here you'll find links to news articles and reports on recent advances in clinical research. This section is updated weekly and the information has been published in CenterWatch publications during the past weeks. The featured conditions change each week, and not all indications are represented.

New Medical Therapies (NMT) Trial Results
NMT Weekly Trial Results database provides information about the results of recently completed and ongoing clinical trials. The clinical trial result summaries typically include the name and phase of the new therapy, the company sponsoring the research, a description of the trial design, and information on how well the drug has performed.

Patient Bookstore
Contains a variety of reports, brochures and publications that patients and their advocates can use to learn more about the clinical trials industry and how to identify and volunteer for clinical trials.

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