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PlainTrial is a data-publishing portal from PlainTrial that makes the US clinical trial registry legible. Every figure comes from ClinicalTrials.gov, the registry maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NIH); we load each study directly from the registry as reported by its sponsor, without altering the numbers. The editorial process writes the plain-language patient guides and sets the sourcing, methodology, and corrections standards behind every page. We do not accept payment from any trial sponsor or entity we cover.
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plaintrial is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.