The exhaustive reference book, which sold 1.5 million copies, offers information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. The National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, offers information geared at both the public and physicians at this site. For the public, it provides pamphlets about problem sleepiness, insomnia, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome, and sleep apnea. This site from the National Institutes of Health provides information about more than 4,000 federal and private clinical trials being conducted across the country. The site is aimed at the public, and for each trial provides information about the location, the design and purpose, the criteria for participation, and the person responsible for recruiting participants.
Users can browse the database by condition or sponsor, or search it using keywords.
The site also has background information for people considering participating in a clinical trial. Copyright 2000 Silver Hammer Publishing. All rights reserved worldwide. Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone who might be interested, as long as you forward the entire publication. However, it is expressly forbidden to post this newsletter on any Web site or other electronic retrieval system.