TMT's Clinical Trials Enrollment System links two separate databases:

• A database of subjects with chronic diseases who are interested in participating in clinical trials.
• A database of currently enrolling clinical trials sponsored by the US Government, academic institutions, or the pharmaceutical industry.

We provide clinical trial enrollment questionnaires for individual clinical trials (e.g., see Lipid Trial).

For use by both physicians and patients, we provide a listing of over 1,400 currently enrolling clinical trials in New York City (NYC Trials).

All data is confidential and is transmitted to our server computer using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) system. Subjects are only required to provide an email address initially for contact purposes (the email address is not shared with other parties without the subject's specific permission and no unsolicited emails will be sent).

TMT matches subject data to actively enrolling clinical trials in two ways:

• Matching by Disease and Geographic Location: TMT's proprietary software coupled with standard Internet search engines regularly searches the Internet for actively recruiting sites for clinical trials for different diseases. The software then scans the TMT enrollment database for people with each disease who live close to actively enrolling clinical trial sites.
• Matching by Disease, Geographic Location and Eligibility Criteria: For certain clinical trials, TMT maintains a more detailed database containing study-specific eligibility criteria. TMT compares the detailed data for subjects in our enrollment database with specific eligibility criteria for these clinical trials and identifies possible matches.

When contacted by email, the subject can decide if a suggested clinical study is of interest. The subject may contact the study site directly or (with the subject's permission) the study site may contact the subject.

An additional website at http://www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.html allows you to search for clinical trials in your own zip code (or geographically close zip codes). Go to this website, select "search ongoing trials", type 1) the name of the disease you are interested in and 2) your zip code in the "Enter search text" field (e.g., hypertension 10021). You will be shown a list of clinical trials in that disease in that zip code. You can review these trials to see if they are of interest to you. You can also use the list of doctors researching this disease as a possible source of a personal specialist for yourself.

The US Government (www.clinicaltrials.gov) lists four reasons for people to participate in clinical trials:

• Play an active role in their own health care.
• Gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available.
• Obtain expert medical care at leading health care facilities during the trial.
• Help others by contributing to medical research.

For those people who do not have access to expert medical care, the third reason may be the most important. In addition, many or all of the costs of treatment or evaluation in a clinical trial may be waived or reimbursed (See Patient Costs in Clinical Trials). Remember, however, that the therapy being tested in a treatment trial may not be effective for you, may cause harmful effects, and may require considerable extra time for the additional doctor's visits and evaluations required.

The US Government provides background information to the public on clinical trials, and TMT has assembled much of this information in a single document (Understanding Clinical Trials). This article is in a PDF file and is viewed with Adobe® Acrobat Reader®. To download the latest version of this free software program, click Download Acrobat Reader.

TMT also provides Links to Clinical Trials currently enrolling subjects. You can browse this information directly, but if you participate in our Clinical Trials Enrollment System our computer will save you a lot of time by matching your profile with the clinical trial requirements and let you know of possibly suitable trials for you to consider. It is entirely up to you as to whether you want to participate in any trial and all information you provide will be kept confidential.

  If you are interested in being in our Clinical Trials Database, email clinicaltrials@masterdocs.com.

Or write Taylor MicroTechnology, Inc., 196 E 75^th Street, New York, NY 10021.

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