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.
Cardiac echogenic foci are common finding on prenatal follow-up. At hillel Yaffe medical center a post natal echography is performed to all newborns with prenatal cardiac echogenic foci. Reviewing the data collected until now may reduce the need for poist natal echography.
Tobacco smoking is a major health problem, leading to considerable morbidity and mortality due to cancer, impaired pulmonary function, and cardiovascular diseases. Chronic nicotine consumption related to smoking may affect pulmonary function and can cause neuronal alterations leading to increased emotional distress and decreased cognitive functioning, especially when the smoker attempts to quit. These may explain the huge difficulty in quitting and the dependence on cigarettes as a means of maintaining emotional balance. The possibility that reduced sleep quality is a major negative outcome that contributes to nicotine addiction has been largely overlooked. Several studies have shown that smoking and smoking cessation disrupt sleep quality; however, the vast majority of these studies were based on subjective reports. Moreover, it is not clear to what degree disrupted sleep quality among smokers may be related to reduced pulmonary function, and to what degree reduced sleep quality contributes to the emotional cognitive distress of active and abstinent smokers and to their urge to smoke. The main hypothesis of this proposal is that smoking and early phases of smoking cessation will be associated with reduced sleep quality. This poor sleep quality will be associated with emotional and cognitive symptoms and difficulty in abstaining from tobacco smoking. Successful abstinence from smoking over time will lead to normalization of the quality of sleep. Experiments to investigate this hypothesis will be conducted on healthy young adults addressing the following specific aims: 1) To examine physiological and psychological factors predicting reduced quality of sleep among smokers, including: poor pulmonary function, the degree of nicotine dependence, altered regulation of stress systems (HPA axis and the sympathetic nervous system), and emotional distress (anxiety and depression); 2) To explore the impact of smoking cessation on sleep quality and related symptoms. Specifically, whether smoking cessation induces fragmented sleep and poor sleep quality, and whether the diminished sleep quality can predict the magnitude of emotional and cognitive symptoms; 3) To examine whether poor sleep (before and during abstinence) can predict the level of the urge to smoke and smoking relapse among abstinent smokers; 4) To explore whether sleep quality ultimately improves following prolonged abstinence from smoking. Addressing these aims, nonsmokers and smokers will be examined before and during smoking abstinence on the following measures: quality of sleep via actigraphy and polysomnography (PSG), pulmonary function test, biological markers of stress (cortisol and α-amylase) and smoking (i.e., cotinine, the main metabolite of nicotine), and emotional and cognitive functioning via psychometric tests. Results of this study will provide novel insight on the role of sleep in nicotine addiction. Experiments will show how reduced quality of sleep may result from chronic smoking and interfere with attempts to quit smoking. Also, the experiment will shed light on the interrelated physiological and psychological mechanisms that mediate the interplay between smoking addiction and sleep. The research will utilize a variety of powerful methods and an interdisciplinary collaboration of experts in the fields of sleep, addiction, and pulmonary medicine. It is anticipated that the results will contribute substantially to our knowledge of smoking addiction and may promote the development of effective therapeutic interventions to this major public health problem.
This study was conducted as part of a collaboration between the Maccabi Health Fund and Bar Ilan University. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder, highly co-morbid with depression, stress, and anxiety. the investigators aim to examine the effect of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) among fibromyalgia patients. the investigators will also examine which intervention fits which patient, according to one's individual characteristics, in hope that this would enable Maccabi to offer personalized treatment. Furthermore, the investigators wish to identify the underlying cognitive and psychopathological mechanisms (measured during treatment) by which each intervention works.
Nucleix EpiCheck® tests analyzes the methylation pattern in a panel of DNA methylation biomarkers and determines whether this pattern is consistent with cancer under test or with non-cancer tissue. This study is being performed as part of the development process of the Pan Cancer EpiCheck test which includes the identification of different methylation profiles in various cancer types and healthy controls.
This study is being performed as part of the development process of the Liver EpiCheck test which includes the identification of different methylation profiles in HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) patients compare to cancer free control in blood samples
The diverse community of gut microbes commonly referred to as the 'gut microbiome', is increasingly suggested to play significant roles in health and disease, and to affect even distant non-GI organs by metabolite signaling. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients feature a distinct gut microbiome signature4, while modulating the gut microbiome by either antibiotics or fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) is suggested to impact insulin sensitivity. Originally designed to treat obesity, bariatric surgeries often induce a robust and rapid weight-independent improvement in glucose homeostasis within days. Early diabetes remission following bariatric surgery is hypothesized to be mediated by rapid alterations in the gut microbiome and bile acids composition, however, the exact mechanism is yet to be uncovered. Elucidating this mechanism is important as it may form the basis of a new therapeutic modality in diabetes. The investigators intend to deeply characterize early post-bariatric changes in the gut microbiome of diabetic patients, as well as their gut mucosal transcriptome and metabolome, by using state-of-the-art experimental and computational pipelines. Additionally, The investigators will utilize a unique mouse model of bariatric surgery under germ-free conditions, developed at the Elinav lab, that allows us to dissect the role of microbes in post-operative metabolic improvements.
This study is an open-label, single-dose, healthy volunteer phase 1 study after overnight fasting designed to study the safety and PK of medicated drops and tablet formulation for sublingual administration.
Cardiovascular disease is the second major cause of death for women in Israel and the leading cause of death among women worldwide. Women have higher mortality rates after a coronary or cerebrovascular event compared to men, and receive less attention for prevention and treatment of heart disease. The risk factors for heart disease among women in Israel are high: 53% of women in the State of Israel are overweight or obese and 48% of women do not exercise. Increasing physical activity can lower the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in women. The literature suggests that even minor changes in behavior can reduce the morbidity, mortality and costs to the health care system. Pedometers have proven to be an effective tool for increasing physical activity, and have the potential to create change in health habits. The pedometer measures steps and is a simple measure that gives an estimate of the extent of exercise in terms of steps. The device is simple and user-friendly and serves as an indicator of movement as a result of health choices. The literature shows that when pedometers are integrated into a support program, they provide an incentive to increase physical activity. Supporting software includes, among other things - choosing personal goals, close tracking, and self-tracking and re balancing systems. "Implementation intention" is a strategy in the form of an "if-then plan" that can increase the likelihood of attaining one's goals. It is different than specifying a goal intentions as it specifies the when, where and how portions of goal-directed behavior. This study seeks to compare the increase in steps in participants randomly assigned in a 2:2:1 allocation to a goal-setting pedometer intervention, a goal-setting plus implementation intentions pedometer intervention vs pedometer only.
The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of multiple-ascending doses of GTX-102 administered by intrathecal (IT) injection to participants with Angelman Syndrome (AS).
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) engineered T cells against the CD19 protein have been shown to be effective against acute lymphoma and lymphocytic leukemia and are approved by the US (FDA), European (EMA) and Health Basel. However, little information exists on using CD19CAR for treatment of recurrent or irresponsible to previous treatment acute myeloid leukemia. The proposed study will include patients with recurrent disease or those with disease irresponsible to common treatments and they will be treated with CAR-T CD19.