There are about 28871 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Canada. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of BMS-986166 and of branebrutinib, each versus placebo, for the treatment of participants with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis.
The corticomedullary gradient is largely responsible for developing the gradients that are needed to concentrate urine (more solutes and less water). The ability of the kidneys to produce concentrated urine is a major determinant of the ability to survive the warm weather. When temperatures are high, we lose water through sweat, and so the kidneys retain water to maintain fluidity in the blood. The maintenance of a sodium (salt) gradient is required for urine concentration because increased medullary sodium concentration increases the reabsorption of water into the kidney, to be redistributed in the blood. The purpose of this study is to know if the corticomedullary gradient is altered in patients across a wide spectrum of kidney disease using sodium Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), a machine that takes pictures and measures the salt content in the kidneys. 23Na kidney MRI, will provide functional MR of the kidney as a non-invasive tool to describe medullary function to improve management of chronic and kidney disease.
This study will test a drug called enfortumab vedotin in participants with a type of bladder cancer called non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). This study will also evaluate what the side effects are and if the drug works to treat NMIBC. A side effect is anything a drug does to your body besides treating your disease. In this study enfortumab vedotin will be put into the bladder using a catheter. A catheter is a thin tube that can be put into your bladder.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of PRA023 in participants with moderately to severely active Crohn's Disease. After the completion of the 12-week induction period, all participants have the option to continue in the open-label extension for another 38 weeks.
The purpose of this clinical trial is to determine if HCQ in a dose of 400mg daily and indapamide in a dose of 2.5mg daily can help in reducing the progression of disability in people with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. The number of participants in this study will be 35. A maximum of 42 people with SPMS will be included. The trial is funded through internal funding through the University of Calgary. There is no sponsorship from any pharmaceutical industry.
This study is open to adults, between 18 and 75 years of age, who have narrowings in the small bowel (strictures) due to Crohn's disease. Strictures can lead to bowel obstruction (blockage). People whose symptoms got worse because of strictures can join the study. Participants get standard treatment for Crohn's disease and the strictures. The purpose of the study is to test whether the strictures improve further when treated with a medicine called spesolimab added to standard treatment. Participants are in the study for about 1 year and 4 months. In the first 3 months, participants get standard treatment only. After 3 months, participants whose condition improved are put into 2 groups randomly, which means by chance. One group gets spesolimab added to their standard treatment. The other group gets placebo added to their standard treatment. Both spesolimab and placebo are given as infusions into a vein. Placebo infusions look like spesolimab infusions but do not contain any medicine. For the first 2 months, participants get the infusions every month. Thereafter, participants get the infusions every 2 months. During the study, participants have about 11 visits to the study site. The doctors regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects. At 3 of the visits, doctors take images of the bowel using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and with an endoscope. At these visits, the doctors also take a small sample of bowel tissue (biopsy). The participants note their symptoms of Crohn's disease and how the symptoms affect daily life in an electronic diary. At the end of the study, results from the diaries and bowel imaging are compared between the spesolimab group and the placebo group.
Researchers are looking for a better way to treat people who have chronic kidney disease (CKD), a long-term, progressive decrease in the kidneys' ability to work properly. When CKD happens in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, a condition characterized by high blood sugar levels, CKD is also referred to as diabetic kidney disease (DKD). FIGARO-BM is an add-on study in which blood draws that were collected in the FIGARO-DKD study are further analyzed. No additional blood draws (also referred to as biological samples) or data will be obtained from the participants, nor will any additional or new study intervention be introduced. No visit or patient contact other than for obtaining the agreement by the patients (also called informed consent) will be required. Inflammation and scarring are both seen as responsible for worsening of chronic kidney disease. There is much information from animal studies that the study treatment finerenone (BAY94-8862) works against inflammation and against scarring (also called fibrosis) in organs such as the kidney. In this exploratory study researchers want to learn more about the study treatment finerenone (BAY94-8862). To find this out, this study will examine substances called biomarkers in blood draws from participants in the FIGARO-DKD study. Biomarkers are used as indicators of biological processes, disease processes or responses to medication. The biomarkers that will be examined stand for inflammation, organ scarring (also called fibrosis), blood vessel function and congestion. The main question of this study is whether there are differences between these biomarkers in the group of participants who received finerenone and the group of participants who received a placebo in the FIGARO-DKD study. A placebo looks like a treatment but does not have any medicine in it. To answer this question, the researchers will compare the levels of these biomarkers between the two groups at different time points after starting the study treatment. Blood samples for this study will be obtained from FIGARO-DKD study sites with a high number of participants who had been treated with finerenone or placebo for at least 24 months. This information will be combined with other information from biomarker examinations already available in the FIGARO-DKD study.
Symptoms are common and often severely bothersome in pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments. In order to measure the extent of bothersome symptoms, the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) was developed. It is reliable, valid and responsive to change in pediatric patients aged 8-18 years receiving cancer treatments. Mini-SSPedi was developed for children 4-7 years and exhibits face and content validity. These instruments were developed to address the lack of appropriate symptom screening tools for this population. They are available in both self-report and proxy-report formats. Differences between child self-report and parent proxy-report quality of life (QoL) scores have been well described in pediatric populations. There has been increasing recognition that each reporter may have unique and valid perspectives. This has led to a suggestion to collect both child and parent report when possible. When used in clinical care, obtaining both child and parent report will commonly not be feasible. There are settings in which children will not be willing to independently report symptoms, such as when they are very ill. Unfortunately, it is particularly in this setting that obtaining symptoms reports is crucial. While young children may be able to independently report symptoms on a single occasion in the context of a carefully conducted research study, they are less likely to be able to repeatedly and independently report their symptoms. Finally, the burden and logistical complexity of separate child and parent reporting would be associated with considerable challenges for clinical implementation. In considering how routine symptom screening could be implemented into clinical practice, we hypothesized that a dyad approach, where SSPedi is completed by both the child and parent together, may be one way to address these challenges. Consequently, we developed and finalized the approach to co-SSPedi administration, with instruction that is easy to understand, resulting in dyads completing co-SSPedi correctly. To understand the relationships between the available forms of SSPedi (co-SSPedi, proxy-SSPedi and SSPedi), outstanding questions are how co-SSPedi scores compare to either proxy-report or self-report SSPedi and whether the co-SSPedi administration approach increases or decreases score variability. This study is designed to address these questions.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of 100% orange juice on short-term food intake (FI), satiety, post-prandial glycemia and mood in healthy adults. We hypothesize that the consumption of 100% orange juice in the pre-meal environment will improve satiety signals and mood, and suppress FI through its effect on post-prandial glycemia.
The objective of the study is to compare the difference in tear film stability and symptomatic relief between I-DROP MGD and another commercially available drop in the Canadian market.