The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation representing national industry associations and companies from both developed and developing countries. Member companies of the IFPMA are research-based pharmaceutical, biotech and vaccine companies.
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The IFPMA Clinical Trial Portal, which represents more than 7 months work by pharmaceutical industry technical and regulatory experts, as well as IBM consultants, currently contains more that 250,000 links. The Portal URL is: www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.

Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO of Novartis and President of the IFPMA, said: “Today, IFPMA is launching the first international web portal, to provide doctors, patients and their families with simple access to the most complete information on clinical trials of drugs and vaccines. The launch of this portal shows the pharmaceutical industry’s commitment to full transparency in the interest of patients and healthcare professionals.”

The Portal’s search engine has been programmed to access relevant on-line sources of clinical trial information. These include individual pharmaceutical company sites, sites run by third parties working on behalf of these companies, pharmaceutical industry association resources, such as the US pharmaceutical industry association (PhRMA) site www.clinicalstudyresults.org and government sites which routinely carry details of industry trials, such as the US National Library of Medicine’s www.clinicaltrials.gov. Other on-line clinical trial information resources, such as the European Union’s planned Europharm facility, may be linked to as and when they become available.

The Portal allows two broad types of information to be searched for. One is listings (registries) of on-going clinical trials, providing access to basic information, including: brief title, description in lay terms, trial phase, trial type (e.g. interventional), trial status, trial purpose (treatment / diagnosis / prevention), intervention type (e.g. drug / vaccine), condition or disease, key eligibility criteria (including gender & age), location of trial and contact information.

The other broad category of information to which the Portal provides links is the results of completed clinical trials, which are made available in a standard, non-promotional, summary format by various on-line databases. 

For more information see the full announcement at http://www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.html

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