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About Animal Testing
A clinical trial specifically refers to studies in humans. The MRC CTU is not involved with any research on animals. If you would like to know about animal testing, please visit the AboutAnimalTesting website which offers information on animal welfare in animal testing.
Centre for Health Economics, The University of York
The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) is a research unit of the University of York. The Centre's aim is to undertake high quality research that is capable of influencing health policy decisions. The Centre is one of the largest health economics research units in the world.
Centre of the Cell
This website has useful information for people who want to learn more about clinical research. It has sections for teachers, students and 'all'.
Clinical trials
This site gives general information about clinical trials. It is run by the National Institutes of Health in the USA (similar to the Medical Research Council in the UK). The information is for people in the USA, but some of it is useful for people in the UK too.
Clinical Trials Toolkit
This site is aimed at trials managers and other people working on clinical trials. Here, you’ll find practical help to meet the requirements of the UK Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004. These regulations implement the EU Clinical Trials Directive in the UK.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library contains high quality, reliable evidence from systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane systematic reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.
Current Controlled Trials
This site contains a database of ongoing trials in all areas of health care. About 15,000 trials are listed, which are taking place around the world. This database is aimed at researchers, but is freely accessible. The site also has a ‘UK Clinical Trials Gateway’, which lists a lot of trials that are taking place in the UK.
European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is part of the European Union government. Its main responsibility is the protection and promotion of public and animal health. It is responsible for testing and supervising medicines for human and veterinary use across the European Union.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA’s role is to ensure that drugs used in the USA are safe and effective.
Health Information Resources
Health Information Resources (formerly National Library for Health) is part of the NHS. It aims to be the best health library and information service in the world. It has a wealth of information, much of which is freely available.
Health Talk Online
HealthTalkOnline, an award-winning charity website based on University of Oxford research, lets you share in other peoples' experiences of health and illness. Our section on Experiences of Clinical Trials features interviews with 42 people from a wide range of backgrounds talking about why they took part in a trial, what information they needed and what it was like for them. It also includes accounts from patients who decided not to take part, and those who withdrew from a trial.
James Lind Library
The James Lind Library has been created to help people understand fair tests of treatments in health care by illustrating how fair tests have developed over the centuries.
Medical Abbreviations
This US publication has a comprehensive list of medical abbreviations and what they stand for.
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is the government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe.
Medical Research Council (MRC)
This site gives you information about the Medical Research Council, and enables you to link to other MRC research units.
MRC Network of Hubs for Trials Methodology Research
The MRC Network of Hubs for Trials Methodology Research (HTMR) has been established to support the development of novel methodologies to improve the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials.
National Research Ethics Service
The National Research Ethics Service (NRES) is part of the NHS. Its job is to provide help and leadership for NHS research ethics committees across England. Research ethics committees protect the rights, safety, dignity and well being of people who take part in research within the NHS.
NIHR Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN)
The National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) was established to support clinical research and to facilitate the conduct of trials and other well-designed studies across England. The NIHR CRN in England is one of the four networks that comprise the UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN). As part of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, it works towards the development of a world class infrastructure to support clinical research in the UK.
Pubmed / National Center for Biotechnology Information
This is the biggest e-library of healthcare publications in the world. It is run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA. You can search for articles by subject, title or author, and link to a summary of an article, or the whole article. It’s free to use, but you may have to pay for an article.
School Science
Useful if you’re at school, or working with young people. Includes some exercises and lots of information about trials.
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Arthritis Research UK
The Arthritis Research UK is the only UK charity wholly dedicated to research into treatment and cures for arthritis. This site is for anyone who wishes to know more about arthritis and how to help find the cure.
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Organisations that provide information about cancer trials
CancerHelp
Cancerhelp.org.uk is run by Cancer Research UK, the UK's largest cancer research charity. It gives user friendly advice about clinical trials and lists all the trials currently recruiting people affected by cancer in the UK. If you are interested in taking part in a cancer trial, we recommend you look at this site.
International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
The UICC is the world's largest independent, non-profit, non-governmental association of cancer-fighting organisations. UICC brings together a wide range of organisations, including voluntary cancer societies, research and treatment centres, public health authorities, patient support networks and advocacy groups. UICC has over 270 member organisations in more than 80 countries.
Mesothelioma
With more than 2,000 pages of content, the site features information on asbestos, mesothelioma, and other cancers that are caused by asbestos exposure (lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc.). Unlike other sites, Asbestos.com has achieved HON code approval (Health On the Net (HON) Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation that works to preserve the accuracy and trustworthiness of Web-based medical information).
National Cancer Institute Cancer Library
This site from the USA government contains a wealth of information about cancer.
Organisations that run or coordinate cancer trials
The Institute for Cancer Research
The Institute of Cancer Research is one of the world's leading cancer research organisations and is internationally renowned for the quality of its science. The Institute is a college of the University of London and works in partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI)
The NCRI is a partnership between the government, charity and industry which promotes co-operation in cancer research among the 20 member organisations for the benefit of patients, the public and the scientific community.
The National Cancer Research Network (NCRN)
The NCRN provides the NHS with the infrastructure to support cancer clinical trials in England. It aims to improve the speed, quality and integration of research. Since 2001 it has doubled the number of people taking part in cancer trials.
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) aims to develop, conduct, coordinate, and stimulate laboratory and clinical research in Europe to improve the management of cancer and related problems by increasing survival but also patients’ quality of life.
Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG)
Southwest Oncology Group is one of the largest cancer clinical trials cooperative groups in the United States. Funded by research grants from the National Cancer Institute, the Group conducts clinical trials to prevent and treat cancer in adults, and to improve the quality of life for cancer survivors.
The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)
RTOG is a cancer trials cooperative group in the USA, funded by the National Cancer Institute.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG)
ECOG is one of the largest clinical cancer research organisations in the United States, and conducts clinical trials in all types of adult cancers.
The Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB)
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. Since 1956, CALGB has grown into a national network of 29 university medical centres, over 225 community hospitals and more than 3000 cancer specialists.
The Clinical Trials Group of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC CTG)
The NCIC CTG is a highly respected research group which develops, conducts and analyzes national and international multicentre trials of cancer therapy and supportive care.
The National Federation of French Cancer Centres (FNC LCC)
This collaboration of cancer centres in France aims to coordinate cancer research across the country.
The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)
The Netherlands Cancer Institute has an important role as a national and international center of scientific and clinical expertise, development and training. It coordinates and participates in many clinical trials across the Netherlands.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
ASCO is the professional organisation representing doctors who treat people with cancer in the USA. It aims to improve cancer care and prevention and ensure that all patients with cancer receive care of the highest quality. Nearly 25,000 oncology practitioners belong to ASCO.
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UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network
The aim of the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (UK DCTN) is to conduct high-quality, multicentre, randomised controlled trials that answer questions of importance to clinicians and patients. It is a collaborative network of dermatologists, dermatology nurses, health services researchers and patients throughout the UK and Southern Ireland.
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Diabetes UK
As well as providing advice, information and support for people affected by diabetes, this UK charity funds research in three key areas. These are Care and Treatment, Cause and Prevention, and Cure.
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AIDSLEX.org
AIDSLEX is a tool for activists, community organisations, researchers, policy-makers, journalists, health workers and anyone who seeks quick and easy access to a wide range of resources about HIV, human rights and the law.
AIDSmeds.com
AIDSmeds.com is dedicated to providing people living with HIV the necessary information they need to make empowered treatment decisions. The founder and some of the writers of this site are living with HIV.
BHIVA
The British HIV Association (BHIVA) is the leading UK professional association representing professionals in HIV care.
The Body
This site aims to use the web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians, demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment, improve patients' quality of life, and foster community through human connection.
DAIDS
The mission of the Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS) is to help ensure an end to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by increasing basic knowledge of the pathogenesis and transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), supporting the development of therapies for HIV infection and its complications and co-infections, and supporting the development of vaccines and other prevention strategies.
EACS
The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) is a not-for-profit group of European physicians, clinicians and researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS.
HIVandHepatitis.com
This site contains up-to-date HIV/AIDS and hepatitis treatment and care information.
HIV Forum
This is a forum that is free for all HIV positive people and their friends and families.
IAS
The International AIDS Society (IAS) is the world's leading independent association of HIV/AIDS professionals.
i-base
HIV i-Base is a treatment activist group, HIV-positive led and committed to providing timely HIV treatment information both to positive people and to health care professionals.
Medscape
Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools.
NAM aidsmap
NAM is a UK registered charity which gives reliable and accurate HIV information across the world to HIV-positive people and to the professionals who treat, support and care for them.
Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database
This is a public database designed to represent, store, and analyse the divergent forms of data underlying HIV resistance.
Statistics about HIV/AIDS
This site, produced by an international charity called Avert, has a useful summary of statistics about HIV/AIDS.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Terrence Higgins Trust is the leading and largest HIV and sexual health charity in the UK.
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS is an innovative joint venture of the United Nations family, bringing together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organisations in the AIDS response to help the world prevent new HIV infections, care for people living with HIV, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic.
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The British Thoracic Society
One of the aims of the British Thoracic Society is to promote research into the causes, prevention and treatment of respiratory and associated disorders.
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Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development is a not-for-profit venture that aims to accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs to fight tuberculosis. Inaugurated in October 2000, the Alliance is committed to developing anti-TB drugs that are accessible and affordable by those countries worst affected by the disease.
The Global Plan to Stop TB
The Global Plan to Stop TB 2006 - 2015 is a comprehensive assessment of the action and resources needed to implement the Stop TB strategy and make an impact on the global TB burden.
World Health Organisation
This website provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on TB.
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Last Update Date : 20/04/2012
