Linguist Wants Patients to Understand Ellen Berty first stumbled across the ClinicalTrials.gov Web site while researching treatments for the Type 1 diabetes that has dogged her since the age of 13. Months later, after receiving an islet cell transplant in a clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health, she couldn't wait to tell her neighbors about the Web site that had pointed her in the right direction. "All the information I needed was there on the site; I didn't have to go anywhere else," she said. "One day, I was telling my neighbor Alexa how I found out about...