A public listing of trials is important to prevent drug makers from hiding results that reflect badly on their drugs while publishing only results that make their drugs look good.

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service URL: http://www.centerwatch.com Centerwatch includes listings of active industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA.

A number of clinical trials are underway globally for ALS; a comprehensive listing of trials in the US can be found at ClinicalTrials.

For the most current listing of clinical trials in the field of pain, please consult the web site www.clinicaltrials.gov.

It offers a computerized listing of trials sponsored by the institute.

The privately financed site, an outgrowth of a newsletter marketed to physicians and pharmaceutical companies, is simply a listing of trials that is categorized by disease, and the language describing the trials is geared toward medical professionals.

These have been retrieved from NCI's listing of clinical trials.

Listings of clinical trials are included in PDQ and are available online at NCI's Web site.