There are about 9745 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Israel. 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 investigators aim to prove that minimal sonographic training for nuchal cord detection in an unexperienced first year medical resident is more than enough to detect the phenomenon. Patients undergoing elective cesarean section will undergo a routine ultrasound (that is performed to detect the fetal heart rate and the fetal presentation) during which the resident will attempt to detect nuchal cord. The resident will then attend the patient's surgery to verify the findings.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pirfenidone in participants with fibrosing interstitial lung disease (ILD) who cannot be classified with moderate or high confidence into any other category of fibrosing ILD by multidisciplinary team (MDT) review ("unclassifiable" ILD).
The objective of the study is to find the optimal dose of once daily oral neladenoson bialanate (BAY1067197) when given in addition to appropriate therapy for specific comorbidities.
Postoperative ileus is a frequently occurring surgical complication. It is defined as temporary inhibition of propulsive bowel activity and is manifested by abdominal distention, nausea, vomiting and diet intolerance. It may lead to a prolonged hospital stay, hospital-acquired infections or complications that may require additional treatments (e.g. analgesia, fluids, electrolyte replacement, nasogastric tube decompression), and as a result increase medical costs. Previous studies showed that postoperative coffee consumption shortens the time to first bowel movement after colorectal resections. However, none could explain the mechanism by which coffee stimulates intestinal motility and the determinant agent for this action is still up for discussion (either caffeine or another coffee component). Coffee has a negligible caloric content; It has a pH that varies from 5 to 6 (less acidity than other beverages that have no similar effect on bowel motility) and it is hypotonic. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that bowel motility is due to the physical properties of the coffee. Much more likely, that one (or more) of the numerous phytochemicals of the coffee bean are responsible for this effect, when the most obvious candidate seems to be caffeine. However, as mentioned above, very little evidence exists that caffeine was responsible for the observed effect on colonic function in previous studies. The purpose of this single-centered, prospective, single blinded, randomized clinical trial is to evaluate whether the use of caffeine in the post-operative period significantly reduces the duration of postoperative ileus, and therefore, improves recovery and shorten the hospital stay. The study hypothesis is that post-operative use of caffeine will reduce time to recovery of GI function (post-operative ileus) by at least 15 hours and thus reduce hospital length of stay by at least 15 hours in patients undergoing elective colorectal operations. 50 patients due to undergo large bowel resection via laparotomy or laparoscopy will be enrolled and randomized (1:1) to those who will receive caffeine (100 mg 3 times per day) and those who will receive placebo (tap water) starting on the morning of postoperative day 1 after surgery until flatus will occur for the first time or to a maximal period time of 7 days, whichever comes earlier.
The objective of the trial was to investigate the effect of the use of inhaled CMS, administered b.i.d. via a specific nebuliser for 12 months, compared to placebo in subjects with NCFB chronically infected with P. aeruginosa on the annualised frequency of pulmonary exacerbations.
With the recent addition of carfilzomib as a treatment option for multiple myeloma, no data is available yet on how the drug is being used outside of the clinical trial setting. This study will therefore provide essential data to demonstrate the real world utilization of carfilzomib in routine clinical practice, including dosage, administration schedule, regimen, duration of treatment and reason for discontinuation in Europe.
A Phase 3b, single arm, open-label, multicenter study in treatment naïve adults with chronic HCV infection and compensated cirrhosis to assess the safety of 8 weeks of treatment with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir and to demonstrate the efficacy of the sustained virologic response 12 weeks post dosing (SVR12) rates of 8 weeks of treatment with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir compared to the historical SVR12 rates of 12 weeks of treatment with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir.
Implementation of the initial specimen diversion technique, in which the first milliliter of the venipuncture sample is not injected into the culture bottle, led to a significant reduction in blood culture contamination rates. This technique is based on the assumption that the skin plug aspirated during venipuncture is a major source of contaminating bacteria. One such diversion method is aspirating the first blood volume into a blood collection tube. It has, however, been suggested that regular blood collection tubes carry contaminants from the tube's stopper into the blood cultures drawn afterwards, thereby increasing contamination rates. The aim of this trial is to examine the effect of aspirating the first blood volume into a regular blood collection tube on blood culture contamination rate.
The proposed study is a randomized, open, comparative research involving an intervention group and two control groups. The aims of the study are: 1.To compare levels of depression in female adolescents with obesity and a control group of female adolescents with appropriate weight and height. 2. To investigate whether a decrease in weight due to a short range intervention program provided by dietician for female adolescents with obesity will lead to change in the levels of symptoms of depression and cognitive and executive functions in comparison to a control group of adolescent girls with obesity, matched in age that does not receive such an intervention program. 60 Female adolescents with obesity will be recruited to the study and will be randomized to 1 of two groups- 1. intervention group- participants in this group will attend an intervention program consisting of 12 meetings with dietician and will attend two study visits at the clinic- in the beginning of the study and after three months. 2.Control group- Participants in this group will only come to two study visits at the clinic. In the first two visits they will meet with a dietician and will receive nutrition guidance. Another 30 girls with appropriate weight will be recruited to second control group- this group will come to two study visits at the clinic- in the beginning of the study and after three months. In the first visit participants will receive nutrition guidance by the dietician. In the study visits the following procedures will be performed for all study groups: Blood tests, completion of psychological and nutritional questionnaires, completion of computerized tests and measurements of height, weight, fat mass and circumference of hips.
The study objective of Period 1 was to compare the safety and efficacy of upadacitinib 15 mg once daily (QD) to abatacept on a background of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) for the treatment of signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (bDMARD)-inadequate response or bDMARD-intolerant participants with moderately to severely active RA. The study objective of Period 2 is to evaluate the long-term safety, tolerability, and efficacy of upadacitinib 15 mg QD in participants with RA who had completed Period 1.