There are about 9403 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Switzerland. 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.
SATIOSTAT is a composition comprising a specific dietary fibre component (a mixture of hydrocolloids with excellent safety profiles and a long history of use in humans) and a lipid component (long-chain fatty acids). The goal of this combination is to achieve long-acting delivery of long-chain fatty acids to the intestinal lining, triggering the sustained release of satiety-signals from intestinal cells, and consequently reducing appetite and lowering food intake in humans. Over a period of 6 weeks, volunteers will ingest SATIOSTAT as meal replacement at lunch and as first course at dinner. Once before and after these 6 weeks the investigators will carry out an oral glucose challenge, measure satiation hormones and examine faeces (gut microbiota). Volunteers will fill in a food diary and a questionnaire for gastrointestinal symptoms and quality of life. The whole study will take approximately 8-10 weeks.
SATIOSTAT is a composition comprising a specific dietary fibre component (a mixture of hydrocolloids with excellent safety profiles and a long history of use in humans) and a lipid component (long-chain fatty acids). The goal of this combination is to achieve long-acting delivery of long-chain fatty acids to the intestinal lining, triggering the sustained release of satiety-signals from intestinal cells, and consequently reducing appetite and lowering food intake in humans. Effects of acute ingestion of SATIOSTAT vs. a control will be examined. On a first and second study day, volunteers receive a preload of either SATIOSTAT or a control and then an oral glucose load of 75g enriched with C13 sodium acetate. Gastric emptying will be measured by means of a breath test, and insulin, glucose and satiation hormones will be assessed. On the third and fourth study day, volunteers receive a preload of either SATIOSTAT or a control and are then presented a test meal. Total calorie intake is measured as well as subjective feelings of satiation. In addition satiation hormones are measured.
In this trial the Preventives Heartbeats algorithm will be tested in two wearable devices for its specificity and sensitivity to distinguish between AF and SR.
Current iodine requirements defined for pregnancy and lactation are rough factorial estimates extrapolated from older studies in adults that used radioactive iodine tracers. To ensure optimal thyroid function in these vulnerable groups, a tracer method that could be safely used to accurately define iodine requirements would be valuable. Iodine-129 (129I), a long-lived semi-stable isotope with no health risks, could be used as a tracer, but the analytic challenges are formidable. However, we have developed an ICP-MS method to measure pp-billion (10-9) to pp-trillion (10-12) quantities of 129I in biological samples. In this project we will perform a study in which iodine-replete adult subjects will consume an oral dose of 129I. We will quantify 129I kinetic patterns in plasma, urine and stools after the oral dose, and use these data to derive tracer absorption, retention and excretion rates. This trial will allow us to define optimized procedures for the routine application of this method to assess iodine metabolism in humans. The use of 129I may prove to be a breakthrough technique to safely assess iodine metabolism and requirements in pregnant/lactating women in order to ensure healthy thyroid function in these age groups.
Patients with inflammatory back pain were shown to differ from healthy controls in genotype of the Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), which regulates vasoconstriction/-dilatation. The aim of this study is to investigate whether genetic reduction of muscle perfusion might be a pathophysiological pathway of how genes influence chronic non-specific low back pain (LBP).
To validate the German version of the Young Spine Questionnaire (G-YSQ) and to study back and neck pain in adolescents between 10 and 16 years during one year by means of G-YSQ.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether resminostat will be able to delay or prevent worsening of disease in patients with advanced stage mycosis fungoides or Sézary Syndrome that have recently achieved disease control with previous systemic therapy.
Prehabilitation is a concept that challenges the traditional models of recovery by initiating the recovery process preoperatively. Improvement of physical capacity by means of prehabilitation may facilitate better recovery after surgery. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the impact of preoperative physical exercise training (prehabilitation) on postoperative recovery and clinical outcomes after major abdominal surgery.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths overall and second after colon and rectum cancer among gastrointestinal cancers in Western countries. In Switzerland, 1,172 new pancreatic cancer patients were diagnosed in 2012. Unfortunately, only about 20% of pancreatic cancer patients present at a disease state that allows surgical resection while 30% have locally advanced, unresectable disease and 50% show distant metastases. While the latter two are currently treated in a palliative setting with median survival of at most 6-12 months, patients who undergo tumor resection with curative intentions also achieve only 5-year survival rates of 20-25% in best hands. The reasons for this poor outcome are thought to be chemoresistance, early establishment of metastatic disease, and importantly, high rates of R1 resections. Up to 80% of pancreatic resections have positive resection margins which are often found within the vascular groove and/or at the retroperitoneal margin, close to the superior mesenteric artery. This high rate of positive margins is only found after meticulous pathological work-up and is normally not detected after standard assessment of the specimen. However, the clinical importance of the high positivity of resection margin is even more highlighted as patients undergoing portal vein resection despite negativity of portal vein invasion after regular pathological work-up show significantly better survival compared to patients without portal vein resection. In sum, given the overall poor prognosis despite tumor resection, auxiliary treatment strategies to improve long-term outcomes are desperately needed. Over the last 5 years, irreversible electroporation (IRE) emerged as a non-thermal ablative modality that allows local tumor destruction with sparing vital structures like arteries, venous vessels, as well as the bile and pancreatic duct. There is increasing evidence that IRE for locally unresectable pancreatic cancer is effective with an increase in local progression free survival , distant progression free survival and overall survival compared to historic controls.Data on margin accentuation IRE are sparse while in a recent study published by Martin et al showed that margin accentuation among patients with borderline resectable disease can be performed safe and efficacious if the treatment can be performed "with a high degree of technical ability and skill set".
This is a phase 3 randomized, placebo controlled study to evaluate the safety and anti-tumor activity of Avelumab in combination with standard of care chemoradiation (SoC CRT) versus SoC CRT alone in front-line treatment of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer.