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Here are ways to find a clinical trial.

• Your health care provider may know about trials that you can join.
• The National Institutes of Health has a Web site called ClinicalTrials.gov that you can search, found at http://clinicaltrials.gov.
  
  To find studies for older people, use one or more of these terms in your search: aged, elderly, senior, age > 55, or 65 years and above.
• Support groups often have lists of trials.
• Newspapers in large cities often have advertisements for trials at nearby hospitals, clinics or universities.