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WHO Registry Provides Free Access To Research Results
2004-04-08

Under a new project co-sponsored by the World Health Organization announced Friday, physicians and researchers across the globe will have free online access to the results of the latest clinical trials in reproductive health, infectious diseases, vaccines and other medical fields. As of Friday, all randomized controlled trials considered the best way to compare the success of various methods of disease prevention or treatment that receive approval from the WHO ethics review board will be assigned a number and catalogued under a register set up by WHO and an independent publishing house, London-based Current Controlled Trials Ltd.

Under a new project co-sponsored by the World Health Organization announced Friday, physicians and researchers across the globe will have free online access to the results of the latest clinical trials in reproductive health, infectious diseases, vaccines and other medical fields. As of Friday, all randomized controlled trials considered the best way to compare the success of various methods of disease prevention or treatment that receive approval from the WHO ethics review board will be assigned a number and catalogued under a register set up by WHO and an independent publishing house, London-based Current Controlled Trials Ltd.

The International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register will for the first time make readily available research about neglected diseases, many of which disproportionately affect the poor in developing countries.

According to the WHO, although randomized controlled trials are a primary source of medical knowledge, they are spottily reported and inconsistently organized. They are also subject to publication bias, whereby trials are not published because of negative findings or language barriers. Researchers do not always have access to the journals in which the trials are eventually published.

In the first phase, all trials pertaining to human reproduction have been included in the register, with trial pertaining to infectious diseases, childhood diseases, vaccines and other fields to follow (WHO release, April 2).(Source: UNwire, Monday, April 5, 2004 ) 

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WHO leads drive for international coordination of clinical research 
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2004/pr23/en/print.html

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