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What do ClinicalTrials.gov status changes mean?

Recruiting, suspended, terminated, withdrawn — registry status is where bad news often lands first.

Sponsors must update study status within 30 days of a change. Terminated means stopped early and won't restart; suspended means halted but may resume; withdrawn means never started properly.

Terminations frequently post to the registry before any press release. Our change-detection engine polls tracked trials continuously and records every field-level diff with a detection timestamp.

See it live: the catalyst calendar · status-change feed

What do ClinicalTrials.gov status changes mean?