There are about 25435 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in United Kingdom. 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.
Heart attacks are most commonly caused by rupture of fatty deposits (plaques) within the wall of heart blood vessels. It appears that this process can also frequently occur without causing any symptoms and these events likely explain the development of narrowing within the heart arteries which can subsequently produce symptoms of angina (chest pain). Previous research has shown a specialised scanner known as a PET (positron emission tomography) scan can identify these recently ruptured plaques in patients without symptoms of a heart attack and these patients have changes on a blood test (troponin) which suggest that they are at higher risk of having a heart attack in the future. This study aims to identify these patients using the PET scan and then see if the markers of increased heart attack risk can be reduced by the use of a blood thinning medication (ticagrelor) which is already a well recognised treatment for people who have suffered a recent heart attack.
This study will examine extreme responders to second- and third-line Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) therapy using a retrospective approach and patients with slow or fast diabetes progression.
Two key requirements for discharge from hospital after major abdominal surgery are adequate oral analgesia and resumption of oral nutrition. Up to 40% of patients suffer delayed discharge after abdominal surgery due to delayed return of gut function, manifesting as nausea, vomiting, constipation and abdominal distension. Opiates and their derivatives are the mainstay of postoperative analgesic regimens after abdominal surgery and are highly effective in achieving adequate pain control. However, opioids cause impaired gut function by reducing normal forward propulsion and increasing gut spasm. Opioid receptor blockers such as Alvimopan counteract these effects and can accelerate postoperative gut recovery but are expensive and cause cardiac complications; alternative painkillers such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories are less effective than opioids and have been linked with increased risk of anastomotic leaks. Targinact is a combination of prolonged release opioid analgesic (oxycodone hydrochloride) and naloxone hydrochloride (an opioid receptor blocker). The formulation of the product confines the naloxone action to the gut to reduce the unwanted side-effects on gut function. Targinact has been shown in patients with chronic severe pain to provide comparable analgesia to other opioid analgesics whilst reducing the unwanted side-effect of constipation. The Investigators wish to test the hypothesis that Targinact will provide adequate analgesia after colonic resection with reduced postoperative gastrointestinal dysfunction. The surgical procedure chosen to test this hypothesis is laparoscopic segmental colectomy, a consistently reproducible intervention with a postoperative gut dysfunction rate of up to 40% (prospective data from the Edinburgh Colorectal Unit). The main outcome of the study will be return of normal gut function at the time of planned discharge (Day 3).
The investigators will conduct a two-arm, randomized controlled trial of the effect of emotional content in online videos on the extent to which the video is disseminated (forwarded). Dissemination can be assessed in terms of the number of views which can increase as a result from sharing and forwarding of the video. In this study, an experiment video and a control video, both of which are approximately 2.5 minutes long, will be uploaded on YouTube, the most visited video sharing website. The videos concern the WOMAN trial, a large RCT of tranexamic acid in postpartum hemorrhage. The experimental group will receive a video with strongly emotional content (an interview with a postpartum hemorrhage survivor and her husband). The control group will receive a short video in which a researcher conveys the same information (but without the first hand experience of the survivor and her husband). Otherwise, the two videos are identical. Participants, selected from clinicians and researchers in obstetrics and gynecology, will be randomly allocated to two groups. An e-mail with a link to either of the videos will be sent to the participants. In the e-mail, they will be asked to watch the video and forward the link to their colleagues if they find it helpful. The primary outcome is video forwarding. The secondary outcome is the number of access to the video that each participant generated. Data will be collected for 14 days after the e-mails are sent to the participants. The relative risk (RR) of forwarding the videos will be calculated as effect measure and compared using chi-square test. The distribution of the numbers of access to the video that each participant generated will be compared using Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The hypothesis is that an online video with emotional content has higher chance of being forwarded to other people and therefore, gets higher number of views than an less emotional online video.
This Phase II, single-arm study is designed to evaluate the effect of atezolizumab treatment in participants with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial bladder cancer. Participants will be enrolled into 1 of 2 cohorts. Cohort 1 will consist of participants who are treatment-naïve and ineligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy. The results of Cohort 1 are reported separately (NCT02951767). Cohort 2 (reported here) will contain participants who have progressed during or following a prior platinum-based chemotherapy regimen. Participants in both cohorts will be given a 1200 milligrams (mg) intravenous (IV) dose of atezolizumab on Day 1 of 21-day cycles. Treatment of participants in Cohort 1 will continue until disease progression per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1) or unmanageable toxicity. Treatment of participants in Cohort 2 will continue until loss of clinical benefit or unmanageable toxicity.
This is a multicenter randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, dose-ranging phase 2b study to investigate the hepatic and renal safety and tolerability of multiple dose administration of two dose levels of CSL112 compared with placebo in subjects with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
This is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled and ascending single dose study. It is hypothesised that single oral doses of DS-1971a within the planned dose range will be safe and well tolerated by healthy male subjects.
Overactive Bladder (OAB) is a chronic condition defined as urgency with or without incontinence usually associated with frequency and nocturia. It is a common condition affecting 15-45% of adults and constitutes a significant proportion of patients attending urogynaecology clinics. OAB is known to have a significant impact on the physical, social and emotional quality of life and sexual function in women. The treatment of OAB is initially conservative with bladder training followed by pharmacotherapy. Evidence from a recent Cochrane review on treatment of OAB suggests that the efficacy of anticholinergics in treatment of OAB is enhanced when combined with BT. Women who fail to improve with these initial measures are offered Intravesical Botox or neuromodulation in the form of Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) or Sacral Nerve Stimulation (SNS). PTNS has also been shown to more effective than pharmacotherapy with anticholinergics. In 2010 National Institute of Clinical Excellences (NICE) issued guidance stating '"PTNS for OAB demonstrates effectiveness without major safety concerns" We hypothesise that the outcome of PTNS will improve if the PTNS sessions are combined with bladder training (BT).
Irritable Bowel Syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder characterised by chronic or recurrent abdominal pain or discomfort and diarrhoea. This trial aims at the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of oral ibodutant 10 mg once daily as compared to placebo in women with IBS-D over a 12-week treatment period.
Subjects receive a single oral dose of radioactive ASP1707 on Day 1. Blood, plasma, urine and feces samples are collected for analysis of 14C-radioactivity and ASP1707. Metabolites are collected until at least 144 hours after dosing.