Make sense of clinical trials
Simple answers to what trials are, how they work, and what to ask.
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A small step can open a new door.
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Explore global health data and understand why research matters.
Explore world health →Prepare for a conversation
Build a question checklist to take to your care team or a study site.
Plan my next step →Different backgrounds. Shared humanity.
Your questions belong here.
Your choice. Our commitment. Hope through research.
From regulators and pharmaceutical researchers to clinical research professionals, your doctors and nurses—a shared commitment to protecting your rights, listening to your questions, and advancing care through responsible research.
We aim to welcome people of every background, culture and language. Research should invite questions, respect individual needs, and never pressure anyone to participate.
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Hope is not a promise of benefit. Clinical trials involve risks, and a study treatment may not help you. Discuss your options with your care team.
Learn about an area • discover real research
Explore treatments and approaches being studied
Choose an illustrated area, then your country. See what registry-listed studies investigate and which local sites report recruiting.
All 16 areas include organ/body pictures or illustrative stock photographs. Select an area to enlarge its picture. Stock photos need internet and have labelled offline fallbacks. Pictures do not imply a diagnosis, trial participation or a proven treatment. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
Study terminology and patient guidance: ClinicalTrials.gov glossary ↗ · Patient information ↗
Meet your amazing body
Explore Human Anatomy →Turn curiosity into healthy conversations.
Watch the anatomy video, select an organ, and explore its structure, function and source-linked health information.
Meet your learning companionBig questions?
Big questions?
Start with Patient Genie.
Ask about trial basics, your rights, or how to find a study. A friendly place to begin.
AI-powered guide · Not medical advice
For research teams
Understand investigator-led research, responsibilities and questions to take to your institution.
Discover research
Find a clinical trial
Search public trial registries for studies on any condition, then check which sites in your city or country report that they are recruiting.
Search on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
The official link carries disease and location. Reapply status filters on the registry; exact local-site matching is performed in this shell.
A page contains up to 100 registry candidates. Counts exclude unloaded pages. City and site filters are checked against the same site record.
A listing is not an endorsement or a guarantee of safety or benefit. A recruiting study may not be recruiting at every site. Check the full record and contact the study team.
Understand the area • choose your country • explore real studies
Therapeutic Areas & Research
Explore what interventions are being studied across 16 areas. Choose a country to find matching trial sites, research approaches and study-team contacts from ClinicalTrials.gov.
Research is not a treatment recommendation.
A recently posted study is not necessarily a proven advance. An investigational treatment may or may not benefit you. Availability, eligibility and approval require confirmation.
Information is educational and does not replace medical advice. These pages are for research navigation. Guided introductions to each area are in Disease-area primers.
Choose a therapeutic area
All 16 areas have picture panels: organ and body images from the supplied anatomy video, or illustrative stock photographs for other topics. Select an area to enlarge its picture. Stock photos need internet; if one cannot load, its panel clearly labels the offline concept illustration instead.
16 areas shown
How to interpret “current advances”
Being investigated
The registry describes an intervention and the question being tested. It does not establish that the intervention works.
Results posted
Results can be positive, negative, inconclusive or limited. Read the official results and discuss their relevance with a qualified professional.
Approved / appropriate care
Approval, standard of care and suitability in your country require a local regulator or healthcare professional—not an inference from trial phase or listing.
Reference: ClinicalTrials.gov patient information ↗. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
Country research records
Choose an area and country, then select Search research. No query has been sent.
Explore research—not guaranteed treatment
Real registry records will appear after you submit a search. No sample studies or unsupported “latest breakthroughs” are displayed.
The official search link carries area/condition and location; reapply other filters on the registry. Up to 100 candidates load per page. Counts cover loaded records only, not all research in a country or all national registries.
Wider registry coverage
ClinicalTrials.gov includes studies from many countries, but it is not an exhaustive national research inventory. Search WHO’s trial-search portal for additional participating registries and verify any country-specific requirements with the study team.
WHO international trial search ↗External registry results are not merged automatically. No cross-registry completeness or duplicate-removal claim is made.
Your learning corner
A little clarity goes a long way.
No medical background needed. Explore short explainers and build the confidence to ask your own questions.
Patient education • step by step
Understand the process before deciding
Explore each learning step, then discuss what applies to you with a healthcare professional or study team.
This is an educational guide, not a record of enrollment or an eligibility decision. Creating an account or acknowledging a privacy notice is not informed consent to join a trial.
How a clinical trial may unfold
Illustrated learning guide
This shows a typical path, not a promise of care or a fixed order for every study. You can pause, choose a step, or continue at your own pace.
1. Research question
Researchers begin with a health question. Research does not replace your own medical care.
The protocol (the written study plan) is reviewed, and the study team explains risks, other options and your choices. Screening and consent timing can vary. Taking part is voluntary and benefit is not guaranteed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
Your learning progress0 of 6 topics explored
For your own reflection—not a test or a requirement to participate. Progress is kept only in this browser on this device.
More ways to understand
Visual guide
What, why & how — at a glance
Understand the essentials in three simple diagrams.
1What is a clinical trial?
A research study with people that tests a health-related question under a written plan (protocol).
2Why join a clinical trial?
Personal benefit is not guaranteed. Weigh possible benefits and risks with your care team.
3How is a clinical trial done?
Simplified education. Steps and phases vary by study; not every study has all phases. Participation is voluntary and eligibility is decided by the study team.
The research journey
What do trial phases mean?
A simplified guide for drug trials. Other study types may not have a phase.
Early Phase 1 studies also exist. Phases can be combined, and a later phase does not guarantee benefit or safety.
A quick confidence check
If I join a clinical trial, can I choose to leave?
Questions you’re welcome to ask
Will I definitely receive a new treatment?
No. Your assigned group may receive the study treatment, standard care, a placebo, or another comparison. Ask about the study design and how groups are assigned.
Will participation cost me money?
Ask what the sponsor covers, what may be billed to you or your insurer, and whether travel or other expenses are reimbursed. Do not assume that participation is free or paid.
Can a caregiver help me?
A caregiver or trusted person can help you prepare questions and understand information. Ask the study team about support, accessibility, translation, and the applicable consent process.
Where can I read more?
Explore · understand · ask
Human Anatomy
Travel through the body in 3D, choose an organ, then zoom in to its tissue and cells to see how it works.
Travel through the body
Full body
Choose an organ to see where it sits in the body.
Choose an organ
Video description
A see-through human figure turns, then the view moves in through the chest wall to the lungs and heart, down past the liver and stomach to the intestines, kidneys and bladder, round to the spine and up to the brain. It is a stylized animation, not a patient scan.
Select an organ
Tip: double-click the picture to go one level closer. Use Ctrl and the mouse wheel, or pinch, to zoom; drag to move a zoomed picture.
Cell function
Information is educational and does not replace medical advice. The video and drawings are simplified teaching illustrations, not medical images or microscopy.
For awareness and educational purposes only. This information does not provide a diagnosis, treatment recommendation or personalized medical advice.
Disease Atlas • WHO evidence
Global disease burden · including Asia-Pacific
Explore worldwide WHO estimates and an Asia-Pacific source view. Keep global and regional measurements distinct as you move around the map.
WHO GHE + Global Health ObservatoryWHO published figures
Different years, age groups and measures are shown deliberately. Do not add these figures or treat them as personal risk. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
The global picture
Selected WHO estimates • each card states its period and measure
Selected leading causes of death
| Rank | Cause | Broad group |
|---|
Change over time
Only source-supported observations and change statements
Beyond the included WHO topics
Search any disease
Find an available WHO profile, open a WHO source search, or carry the disease into a city-level trial search.
All disease terms are accepted for registry/source search. The embedded burden collection still covers only the stated WHO topics; this search does not invent missing statistics.
Explore the world • understand the burdenWorld topographic map · Global & APAC views
Choose Global or APAC, then select a disease topic or labelled WHO region. Geographic colours are not disease severity.
Worldwide estimates • all WHO regions
Global view · WHO regional source markers
Topographic map tiles require internet access.
Geographic basemap by Esri and contributors. WHO sources supply the disease data, not the basemap.
Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. At higher zoom levels the online basemap shows local place names and terrain. Region labels are geographic callouts, not territory boundaries. Map colours show geography—not disease severity. Location search does not create a country-level estimate.
From overview to detailDisease and indicator explorer
12 topic profiles • 46 source-linked records • 11 WHO source pages
| Topic / measure | Geography | Reference period | Published estimate | Population | Source / notes |
|---|
Source notes include uncertainty, publication metadata and definitions. Unknown uncertainty is not a zero-width interval. Subsets and overlapping conditions must not be added together.
Methods, coverage and WHO source library
Separate what is embedded here from what is available through WHO
How to read a measure
- Prevalence
- People living with a condition at a specified time or period.
- Incidence
- New cases during a specified period.
- Mortality
- Deaths, as a count or a rate with a stated denominator.
- Age-standardized rate
- A rate adjusted to a common age distribution for comparisons. It is not interchangeable with a crude rate.
What is not yet included
- No complete country × cause × age × sex dataset or numeric country choropleth is embedded.
- The topographic map is geographic context, not a quantitative country heatmap. Complete regional and country disease series are not embedded.
- GHE rankings are the 2021 release; newer programme estimates are labelled separately.
- Diabetes and hypertension prevalence metadata are provided, but their numeric prevalence series is not embedded.
- Missing values never become zeros or invented region estimates.
Official tables and downloads
World Health Statistics 2026 was published 13 May 2026. Its listing links to tables by country and area, WHO region and globally.
WHO statistics tables and reports ↗GHE downloads cover 2000, 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021, including death, DALY, YLL and YLD estimates.
WHO country and regional burden downloads ↗WHO notes that changes in data and methods mean the 2000–2021 GHE release is not comparable with previously released WHO estimates. Compare within a consistent release and definition. Methods and release notes ↗
For research teams
Bloom for Sites
For study teams listed in a public trial registry: see the people who asked to be put in touch with you, record where they are in your process, and tell Bloom whether your study is taking new participants.
No password and no paperwork: Bloom sends a sign-in link only to an address that the study’s own registry record lists as a contact. Bloom does not enrol anyone. Screening and consent stay with your team.
Not switched on yet
This site has not switched on Bloom for Sites. It needs a published privacy notice that covers study-team accounts and referrals.
Private participant space
Health Passport
A private profile that you control, to help you get ready to talk to a study team. Creating an account, storing health information, storing genetic information and sharing are four separate choices. Nothing here is shared with anyone, and nothing here is a diagnosis or a decision about whether you can join a study.
Enter only what you choose, and write “Unknown” rather than guessing. No sponsor, CRO, organisation, administrator or other participant can read your Health Passport. Many of these fields are sensitive health information.
Your storage choices
Withdrawing deletes what the choice covered from the live database. Downloads you made and operator backups need separate handling. Account export (My Profile, Review & export) includes your Health Passport.
Medical documents
Upload a text-based PDF (up to 25 pages), DOCX or plain-text file of up to 1 MB. Bloom looks only for lines written as “Field name: value” that match Health Passport field names, and shows them as suggestions. Nothing is saved until you choose the values to accept. Scanned images, password-protected files and photos are not read.
Suggestions from your file
Check each value against your document. Only ticked values are copied, and only into fields you left empty. Suggestions are not verified and are never a diagnosis.
Saved documents
Related
Not built yet: eligibility readiness, trial matching and consented sharing with a study team. They need each study’s own rules and a reviewer, so they are not part of this release.
Framework · not an official code release
Disease classification library
A simple, searchable framework based on the WHO ICD-11 chapter structure, used to describe a condition in your Health Passport. It helps you name your condition at the right level. It does not diagnose, and it does not decide eligibility.
Ten levels used to describe a condition
Your disease profile
Research planning · no participant-level access
Sponsor / CRO workspace
Explore source-linked population context. A registration request is checked by an administrator and does not give access to participant contacts, Health Passport data or recruitment leads.
Register as Sponsor / CRO
Create an organisation request. An administrator checks it before any organisation feature opens.
Disease heatmap
Explore the WHO region observations in this release. No social-media feeder is connected.
View heatmap →Global disease burden
Explore WHO-sourced global and Asia-Pacific views with their original reference periods and denominators.
Open the WHO atlas →Conditions and health topics reported in studies
Browse the condition labels that study teams submitted to the public registry. They include diseases and other health topics. This is not a curated disease list, and it is not complete until every registry page for the search has been loaded.
Nothing is sent to the registry until you press Browse registry, and then only the optional search words you typed. No account, participant or Health Passport information is used. A condition appearing here does not mean a study is recruiting near you or that anyone is eligible. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
Sponsor / CRO · aggregated evidence
Disease heatmap
WHO source-linked regional observations. They are not predictions and not a map of individual participants.
Choose one WHO indicator. Compare only records with the same measure, period, unit and population. Missing regions stay unknown. A high burden is not a count of people who could join a study. Social-media feeder: not connected. No platform data have been collected, inferred or used for recruitment.
Social-media feeder (a possible future, governed integration)
Only authorised, purpose-limited, non-identifying aggregate signals with a documented source, date, area, denominator, right to use and privacy assessment could ever appear here. Group membership or post volume cannot show how common a disease is, who is diagnosed, who is eligible or who is willing to take part. Small counts would have to be hidden. Nothing is scraped or collected in this release.
Admin
Admin console
Review organisation requests and read the audit trail. A decision takes effect at once. This console cannot show anyone’s Health Passport, health information, messages or profile.
Audit trail
The latest 200 events: what happened, when, and the kind of account. No names, emails or content.
| When | Event | Account type |
|---|
Responsible community outreach
Volunteering Groups
Plan outreach across disease-topic communities using authorised aggregate reports: not messages, member lists or guessed diagnoses. Admins import the reports; approved organisations can read them.
A community audience is not a patient pool. A group can include carers, professionals and people who are simply interested. Counts do not confirm a diagnosis, eligibility or consent. The same person can be in several groups, so counts are never added up into a number of patients.
Community landscape
Broad, non-identifying topics and regions only. There is no way to search for a person.
Visibility is reported by whoever supplied the data and is not checked by Bloom. “Private” never gives access to a group or its members.
| Community / topic | Region | Visibility | Reported members | Voluntary interest* | Observed / source |
|---|
*What the source reports about people who chose to say they are interested through a separate approved process. These are not eligible people, enrolments or permission to message anyone. Blank values stay “Unknown”. Values below 10 are shown only as “Hidden (under 10)”. Hiding small counts lowers the risk of identifying anyone but does not guarantee anonymity.
No records to show. Load the fictional example. Admins can import an authorised aggregate-only CSV, and approved organisations can read the saved snapshot after signing in with their two-step code.
Bring summaries, not conversations
Accepted input is one authorised snapshot of community-level counts. Get such reports through an approved process outside Bloom. Admin access alone is not permission to disclose anyone’s health information.
- Prepare. Use opaque community and permission codes. Do not include names, profile links, message text, emails, phone numbers or individual records.
- Review here. The file is checked in your browser first. Counts below 10 are hidden before anything is sent.
- Confirm and save. Only Admins can save. An import replaces the whole saved snapshot; it never merges silently.
Data boundary. Only the 8 template fields are accepted, with at most 500 rows and 262,144 bytes. Extra columns are rejected. Do not put personal information in the topic or region either.
Field definitions and limits
- community_code
- An opaque reference of 1–40 letters, digits, hyphens or underscores. Never a group link or member ID.
- topic, region
- 1–80 characters each: a public community topic and a country or broad region, not a person’s diagnosis or exact location.
- access_type
- public, private or unknown. It describes group visibility only.
- member_count, voluntary_interest_count
- Whole numbers 0–999999999, blank for unknown, or <10. Counts below 10, including 0, become <10. No count of verified patients is ever calculated.
- permission_ref
- A non-personal authorisation reference of 1–40 letters, digits, hyphens or underscores. Keep the evidence in your own governance system.
- observed_on
- YYYY-MM-DD: the date the source observed the numbers, never in the future. It is not a verification date.
Review before replacing the saved snapshot
Recipient: this Bloom service and its operator. Purpose: community-level outreach planning. Fields: the 8 template fields only. No member identities or messages are accepted.
| Community | Topic | Region | Visibility | Members | Voluntary interest | Permission | Observed |
|---|
Permission first
A voluntary pathway
- Ask a community administrator about a general invitation they are happy to share.
- The operator and its reviewers approve the wording, the destination and the data flow.
- People open a neutral sign-up page themselves. There is no member matching and no automatic direct messaging.
- That separate form explains who runs it, who receives the data, why, what is collected, how long it is kept and how to withdraw, before it collects anything.
- The study team, not group membership, confirms any next step.
Bloom does not receive form answers, contacts, consent records or health information. An account or group membership is never consent to be contacted.
Draft only · not approved or sent
General invitation draft
We are sharing an optional resource for people who would like to learn about clinical research. Please do not post medical information or contact details in this group. If you choose to explore further, read the operator’s privacy notice and use its approved sign-up page. Opening the page does not enrol you or confirm eligibility. You do not need to reply or take part.
This is not a disease explanation or an advert for a study. Wording about a particular study needs its own approval. Bloom posts and sends nothing.
Reviewed outside sign-up page
Not set up. No information is collected and no outreach link is active.
Before you leave Bloom: Bloom sends no profile, topic, group code, counts or answers. Opening the outside page shares ordinary connection details, such as your IP address, with whoever runs it. That page handles its own collection and consent.
Open the voluntary sign-up page ↗Admins: set up the reviewed links
Community connections
Group links
Keep proposed community group links together while you arrange taking part with their organisers. Being an Admin here gives no authority over any outside group.
Not connected: the group’s administrator must give permission. Saving a link does not contact Facebook, check that a group exists, ask for approval or collect messages, members or statistics. Nothing connects automatically.
Saved links 0
Links are shown as text and never opened or fetched. Copying one does not connect the group. Removing one affects only this list: snapshots, downloads and backups stay as they are.
| Label / link | Status | Saved | Actions |
|---|
No saved links to show.
To pursue statistics, contact the group administrator separately and ask whether they would like to provide an authorised aggregate report. Bloom creates no approval link and does not check anyone’s identity.
Who can do what
- Everyone
- The fictional example, the CSV template and the reviewed outside sign-up page, if an Admin has set one up.
- Approved organisations
- Read the saved snapshot. They must sign in with their two-step code, and the approval must still be valid. They cannot import or change anything.
- Admins
- Import and delete the snapshot, save the reviewed links and group links, and read this activity log. Admins also sign in with a two-step code.
- Nobody
- No account can see members, messages, contact details or individual health information through this page, because Bloom holds none.
Boundaries at a glance
- Not connected. There is no token, crawler, message inbox, member list or private-group access.
- Storage
- One saved snapshot of aggregate counts with small counts hidden. It is not encrypted field by field like accounts are, because it holds no personal data. Keep the server, its disk and its backups protected, and do not claim the hiding of small counts makes data anonymous.
- Retention
- The snapshot is deleted after 30 days. Activity older than 90 days is removed. Destination settings stay until cleared.
- Activity log
- Time, what was done and the number of rows. No messages, raw small counts or personal details.
Activity log
The latest 100 events that are still kept. It is an operations log, not a tamper-proof regulatory audit trail.
| Time | What happened | Rows |
|---|
Delete the saved snapshot
Removes the saved snapshot. Downloads, backups and the activity log entries stay. Nobody’s individual records are held here, so there is nothing to withdraw: questions about an outside form go to whoever runs it.
Investigator-led research • learning & preparation
Investigator-Initiated Trials
From a clinical question to a research discussion. Explore who does what, what to prepare and which questions to take to your institution.
Often abbreviated IIT, and sometimes called an investigator-sponsored study.
A question worth asking.
A plan that puts participants first.
Information is educational and does not replace medical advice. This is a planning aid—not a protocol, ethics approval, regulatory determination, funding application or authorization to recruit.
This guide is available in all six site languages. Linked outside sources may be in English only.
What is an IIT?
An investigator-initiated trial begins with a research question proposed by an investigator or academic team. The investigator may work with an institution, funder or other collaborators. The actual sponsor and responsibilities must be confirmed for the particular study.
A sponsor-investigator is an individual who both initiates and conducts the investigation. Not every investigator-led project uses that legal arrangement. The principal investigator (PI) leads the conduct of the study.
Source: NIH explanatory role definitions ↗ (background explanation, not current legal advice). See current registry policy ↗ and consult your institution.
Origin, sponsorship and funding are different
- The person who proposes the question is not automatically the legal sponsor.
- A university name, investigator name or non-industry sponsor label alone does not prove a study is an IIT.
- External funding or product support does not, by itself, define who is responsible for the study.
- The institution and study documentation—not this shell—confirm the arrangement.
Source: NIH responsible-party explanatory note ↗. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
Who should be in the discussion?
| Role / group | Plain-language purpose | Question to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Investigator / PI | Leads the conduct of the research and the participant-facing study team. | Who is accountable for the protocol, participant evaluation and research records? |
| Sponsor / sponsor-investigator | The identified initiator or accountable sponsoring arrangement; may differ from the funder. | Who accepts the applicable sponsor responsibilities? |
| Ethics committee / IRB | Independent review of the research and participant protections through the applicable local process. | Which review and consent requirements apply here? |
| Institutional research office | Helps clarify institutional permissions, contracts and applicable obligations. | Which specialists must confirm the regulatory and operational route? |
| Study coordinator and support team | Support visits, records and communications under the study plan. | Who handles day-to-day questions, safety escalation and secure communication? |
| Participant / caregiver | Can ask questions and make an informed, voluntary choice about participation. | What are the risks, possible benefits, alternatives and visit commitments? |
Sources: ClinicalTrials.gov definitions ↗ · Patient information ↗. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
A discussion pathway, not a permission checklist
From question to shared learning
Prepare a non-confidential discussion note
Keep notes in this page for the current session, or download a text file for your own use.
Do not enter patient identifiers, investigator contact details, confidential sponsor material or unpublished sensitive protocols. Nothing is submitted to a research office or study team. Reloading the page clears these notes.
Discussion-note preview
Planning prompts are a Bloom discussion aid, informed by registry protocol definitions ↗. No jurisdiction-specific compliance or approval decision is made. Information is educational and does not replace medical advice.
Explore related public research
Carry your disease and city into trial search. This does not restrict results to verified IITs.
No query is sent until you press Search trials on the next page. Ask the listed study team who initiated the trial and which institution or person is the sponsor.
Registration and reporting policy ↗ · Registry field definitions ↗
Disease-area primers • learning & preparation
Therapeutic Area Primers
Short, source-linked primers on the research areas behind clinical trials. Choose a reading level: for patients and families, or for research staff.
Each primer is a draft until a clinical reviewer signs it off. It is educational, not accredited training, and there are no certificates.
Learn the area. Ask better questions.
Your reading and quiz progress stays on this device.
Information is educational and does not replace medical advice. Primers do not recommend treatments or decide whether you can join a study.
Your next steps
Let’s make your next conversation easier.
Gather questions, keep interesting studies together, and decide what feels right for you.
My conversation checklist
Tick the questions you’d like to ask. Download a copy to bring to an appointment.
No personal details are collected. Your selections are kept only in this browser on this device.
You’re in the driver’s seat.
Learning about a trial does not commit you to joining. A care-team conversation can help you weigh the possible benefits, risks, and practical details.
1
Read the full study information
Check the purpose, location, visits, and requirements.
2
Contact the listed study site
Ask about availability and screening. Do not stop or change treatment on your own.
3
Understand consent before deciding
Take time to ask questions and discuss your options.
A learning resource worth sharing
Help a friend or caregiver get comfortable with the basics—without sharing your health information.
Studies I’ve saved
Saved only in this browser on this device. Saved copies can go out of date, so open the official record for the current status. Demo cards remain fictional.
My trial interests
Studies you are interested in, the site you chose and how far you have got. Kept only in this browser on this device: nothing is sent to Bloom, your account or the study team. Items with no update for a year are removed automatically.
Your account • your profile • your choice
My Profile
Create an account or sign in to keep a small profile: your nickname, your role and your preferences.
Your account, kept private
Account email and profile fields are encrypted in storage. Professional roles are self-declared and grant no clinical permissions.
How Bloom protects your privacy →Database service required.
Open this shell through the included server, not by double-clicking the HTML. Install the package, run the server and open its local URL. No account data is saved in browser local storage.
Checking account service…
This service stores your email, password hash and minimal profile preferences. If the site has switched them on, it also stores an optional postal address and phone number, an organisation request, and the health information you choose to enter in the separate Health Passport. Do not enter medical records, diagnoses, licence numbers, identity documents, confidential protocols or another person’s information in these profile fields. Your email address is confirmed with a link; professional credentials are not verified.
Check your email
We sent a message to
Open the confirmation link in it within 48 hours to finish creating your account. If you already have an account with this address, the message explains how to sign in instead.
Nothing there after a few minutes? Check your spam folder, or sign in with your new password to get a fresh link.
Create an account
Review the privacy notice first. Registration details remain disabled until you select Next and the server records the stated acknowledgements.
Your privacy is important to us
The operator must publish its privacy information and supported jurisdictions before new account details can be collected.
Review the identified operator’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use before entering account/profile information. This account service does not automatically share profiles with study teams or send research recruitment messages. It stores a phone number, a postal address or health records only where a separately switched-on feature (organisation registration, the Health Passport) says so, and only what you enter. Privacy acknowledgement is not informed consent to join a clinical trial.
Signing up does not collect health information. The optional Health Passport, where the site has switched it on, asks for its own separate choice first. Local eligibility questions have a separate notice before entry.
Not authorised by NextNo automatic profile transfer. A future sharing flow must identify the study, recipients, exact fields and purpose before you choose.
Not enabledNo outbound calling service is enabled. A phone number, where the site asks for one, is used only to manage the account. Affiliates have no blanket permission to call.
Not enabledNo SMS service is enabled. A future SMS flow requires a separate choice, sender and opt-out information before collecting a number.
Not enabledReview your choices before selecting Next
Your jurisdiction choice and the acknowledgements below are sent to this operator’s service to record this step. No name, email, phone number or health information is requested here. This does not authorize trial participation.
If your location is not listed, do not choose another one. Continue without an account or contact the privacy contact shown above.
You can browse public educational information without creating an account. Optional outreach must not be a condition of access to general learning. Requirements depend on the operator, your location, applicable law and the actual service being offered.
Email confirmed · role self-declared · no special access granted
Organisation request
Postal address and phone number
Two-step sign-in
Save these recovery codes now. Each works once if you lose your phone. They are shown only this time.
Signed-in devices
Only a browser and system name are kept for each sign-in: no IP address or location.
Trial email alerts
Bloom emails you at most once a week when new recruiting studies on ClinicalTrials.gov match a saved search. Add one with “Email me new matches” next to a saved search on the trial page.
The database stores this account and profile, and only what you choose to send through Bloom Connect (interest sent to study teams and email alerts). Chat, eligibility answers and IIT notes remain session-only. Saved studies, saved searches, trial interests, checklist choices, lesson progress and training progress stay only in this browser on this device and are not synchronized to this account. Sign out before sharing a device; signing out reloads the page to clear session work.
Create account and profile
Account privacy and deployment limits
- There is no browser-only fallback for account saving. If the server cannot save, the page reports the error instead of claiming success.
- Account sessions use an HttpOnly cookie. No passwords or account tokens are stored in localStorage. This account service is separate from the AI assistant’s memory.
- Profile exports contain an unencrypted email/profile and privacy-acknowledgement file on your device; downloads are not deleted when the account is removed.
- Account deletion removes live account, profile, consent and session records. Unlinked security-event entries may remain for the operator’s retention period; backups and downloads are not deleted automatically.
- Professional roles are not verified. Organisation accounts are checked by an administrator, and the optional Health Passport stores health information only after your own separate choice. Email addresses are confirmed with a link, and forgotten passwords can be reset by email. Public deployment requires HTTPS, backups/key protection and an institutional security/privacy assessment.
- Disease-area primers are drafts pending clinical review. Quiz answers and reading progress stay in this browser and are never sent to the account service.
Previous browser-only profile?
It is not read or automatically uploaded. You can remove that one legacy browser-storage record here; this does not change a server account.
Transparency • choice • control
Privacy & Terms
A notice for this deployment and the account service. This page is not a promise that every legal requirement in every country has been met.
How Bloom protects your privacy
Bloom is built on the privacy-by-design principles of the EU and UK GDPR and uses safeguards modelled on the US HIPAA Security Rule.
Only what is needed
Reading, study searches, primers and Patient Genie work without an account. An account holds your email, a hashed password and a small profile. Bloom asks for a postal address, a phone number or health information only in features the site has switched on, and only after you choose to use them.
Encrypted
Connections use HTTPS. Your account email and profile are encrypted in the database, and passwords are kept only as a one-way hash.
Protected sign-in
Secure session cookies, automatic sign-out when you are inactive, limits on repeated sign-in attempts, and a list of signed-in devices that you can sign out.
Kept on your device
Eligibility answers, saved studies and searches, checklists and primer progress stay in this browser. They are never sent to Bloom or to your account. Patient Genie answers the safety questions it recognises on this device and sends other general questions through Bloom’s server to an AI service for an answer; Bloom does not save the chat.
Your rights, built in
In My account you can see and correct your details, download a copy of them, or delete your account at any time.
No ads or tracking
Bloom adds no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. Its server logs contain no email addresses, IP addresses or passwords.
Privacy laws we design for
GDPR · UK GDPR
Data minimisation, purpose limitation and security by default, plus the rights of access, correction, portability and erasure in My account. The operator’s Privacy Policy names the data controller, the lawful basis for each use and how to complain to a data protection authority.
HIPAA
On its own, the account service does not collect protected health information such as medical records. If the operator switches on the optional Health Passport, it stores the health information you choose to enter, encrypted, and the operator’s Privacy Policy states whether HIPAA applies to it. Its safeguards follow the approach of the HIPAA Security Rule: access control, encryption, audit records and automatic sign-out. HIPAA applies to health-care providers, health plans and their business associates; the operator’s Privacy Policy states whether it applies to this site.
These safeguards are built into the software. They are not a certification: the organisation that runs this site is responsible for its Privacy Policy and for meeting the laws that apply to it, including other national privacy laws.
Draft — operator configuration requiredYour privacy is important to us
The responsible organisation, contact, legal jurisdictions, policies, retention and transfer arrangements must be configured before new account details can be collected. This file cannot certify legal compliance by itself.
Account creation does not authorise the collection of medical records, sharing with a study team, automated calls or SMS. Health records have their own separate Health Passport choice where the site offers it; sharing, calls and SMS are not enabled. The Next step records only the specific account acknowledgements displayed before the form.
Contact the deployment operator for the applicable Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Do not enter personal or sensitive information into an unconfigured deployment.
Understand the boundaries
- Creating an account is not informed consent to a clinical trial and does not confirm eligibility, enrollment or benefit.
- This account service collects the listed account/preferences fields only. The profile form collects no phone number, medical record, study data or consent to marketing. An optional address and phone number (where switched on) and the separate Health Passport have their own notices and choices.
- Local eligibility answers stay in the page session and are not sent to the account database or a study team. They can be sensitive: use them only after the local-use notice and do not enter identifiers.
- Public registry search sends the entered disease and location to the registries you choose (ClinicalTrials.gov and ISRCTN directly; EU CTIS, NCI and MFDS through Bloom’s server); US ZIP distance searches may also use Zippopotam.us. Such queries may reveal health interests. Use general, non-identifying terms.
- Public images and online map tiles are external resources; their providers may receive technical connection information. No optional advertising/tracking consent is implemented here.
- Study contact links open a separate email or phone app only when selected. This does not authorize the platform to share a profile or to contact you automatically.
Access, deletion and questions
Signed-in users can review/edit their profile, export account/profile information and privacy acknowledgements, or delete their account after password confirmation. Consent to receive calls or texts is not stored because those services are not enabled.
A new notice is shown before registration or profile editing. If you decline, no new profile is submitted; declining does not erase an existing account. Use Delete account to remove it, or contact the configured privacy contact to exercise applicable rights, make a complaint or discuss a request.
Account deletion removes the live account/profile, associated sessions, consents and linked privacy acknowledgements. Unlinked security-event entries and operator-controlled backups may remain according to the stated retention arrangements. Previously downloaded files and external recipients’ records are not remotely deleted.
Where processing relies on consent, withdrawal does not by itself undo processing that was lawful before withdrawal. Any legally required retention or alternative legal basis must be explained by the responsible operator under the applicable policy and law.
Before any future research contact service is enabled
Sensitive-health processing, sharing with named study personnel, automated/prerecorded calling and SMS require their own reviewed purpose-specific controls where applicable. Unchecked opt-ins must describe who contacts you, why, what is shared and how to stop contact. Phone/SMS choices must not be bundled into the account “Next” button.
A text programme must disclose applicable message/data rates and message expectations and implement the stated opt-out/help process before soliciting permission. This release does not send texts or calls, use phone numbers for texts or calls, or claim to process STOP requests.
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