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CLINICAL TRIALS AND PUBLIC USE
Clinical drug trials bring new and more effective pharmacologic weapons to physicians almost on a daily basis. Most of these clinical studies that bring new drugs from bench to bedside are financed by pharmaceutical companies (sometimes referred to as Sponsors). Many of these drug trials are run by academic medical centers or by commercially oriented networks of contract-research organizations (CROs) and site-management organizations (SMOs). These clinical trials are generally governed by Master Clinical Research Agreements that the parties enter into. These agreements generally have strict confidentiality provisions.