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 ContraBand™ device is intended for treatment of heart failure patients who remain symptomatic despite the use of optimally tolerated guideline directed medical therapy. ContraBand™ is a transcatheter constriction device which is implanted in the left and right branch pulmonary arteries, causing a local reduction in the internal diameters of these arteries, and resulting in an elevation in systolic right ventricular pressure. This may result in repositioning the interventricular septum to a more normal anatomical position, and supporting it with a "counter-pressure" during systole of the left ventricle. This study is a first-in-human, early feasibility, multi center, prospective, interventional, open-label, single-arm study.
A randomized, placebo controlled double-blind, 12-week treatment trial in men with moderate to severe symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The trail is about to examine the effect of Brizo® on reduction of BPH related symptoms.
The current study seeks to test differences between a single-session large-group format of standard exposure, enhanced exposure, and a control condition in treating anxiety sensitivity. It is hypothesized that 1) participants assigned to either exposure condition will evidence greater reductions in anxiety sensitivity from pre-treatment to posttreatment relative to those in the control condition; 2) participants assigned to the enhanced exposure condition will evidence greater reductions in anxiety sensitivity from pre-treatment to posttreatment relative to those in the standard exposure condition. The investigators will test putative moderators and mechanisms of action. Prior to initiating the study for purposes of data analyses, the investigators will pilot study procedures during Spring 2020.
This prospective, sample collection study will assess different oral and/or nasal sample types collected from patients suspected of suffering from GABHS pharyngitis to conduct research and development on innovative GABHS detection methods specific for each sample type.
Ovarian dermoid cyst, also known as benign mature teratoma, originate from germ cells in the ovary, and is the most common benign ovarian tumor (44-70%). Several reports documented a secretion of NMDA receptor antibodies from dermoid cyst. This receptor is found in different areas in the central nerves system (CNS) and the presence of plasma antibodies has been shown as a rare cause of neurologic presentation term paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome, which can be characterized by mood disorder, psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. In several case reports on young women, first presented with nonspecific neurologic symptoms, then followed by rapid deterioration of conscious, seizures and the need for ventilation support, ovarian teratoma was diagnosed. In 2007 an association between N-Methyl-D-Aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antibody and encephalitis was first described. More than 50% of paraneoplastic encephalitis were related to teratomas, most often from an ovarian origin. Therapy includes tumor resection, steroids, plasmapheresis and immunosuppressive drugs. The investigators recently published a retrospective cohort study analyzing 233 patients who were operated in their institution with pathology proven dermoid. In this study 2 patients presented with paraneoplastic syndrome (0.85%). No prospective study has been published to date to examine the association between antibody titer and dermoid cyst characteristics and the paraneoplastic phenomenon. The investigators wish to conduct a prospective study in which plasma samples will be obtained from patients asymptomatic for neurologic or psychiatric symptoms, undergoing surgery for ovarian dermoid cyst, due to gynecology indication (e.g size, symptoms) in order to identify antibodies against CNS NMDA-R in their plasma prior to cyst removal. If NMDA receptor antibodies will be discovered in asymptomatic patients it may be prudent to examine all serums of women who are diagnosed with ovarian mature teratoma, and offer a surgical removal in order to prevent a possible neurologic sequela in the presence of these antibodies.
The primary objective is to evaluate the efficacy of carisbamate (YKP509) as adjunctive treatment in reducing the number of drop seizures (tonic, atonic, and tonic-clonic) compared with placebo in pediatric and adult subjects (age 4-55 years) diagnosed with Lennox Gastaut Syndrome (LGS).
The investigators use machine learning capabilities on massive electronic health records for the purpose of developing a model that prioritizes individuals at high risk of progressing to liver cirrhosis, and validating it with participants that the model found to be at high risk. constructing and validating a reliable model, with sufficient accuracy to justify further and expensive means of detection, will enable treating patients with damaged liver at an early enough stage to allow improvement of the liver condition.
This is an observational prospective follow-up study. The study population will include 30 children aged 6-18 years who suffer from a primary headache and are treated at the Pediatric Neurology Clinic at Bnai Zion Hospital in Haifa, Israel. After the adolescents or parents sign an informed consent to participate in the study, they will receive a headache diary (Appendix 1) which they will fill out for 4 weeks as recommended [15]. They will mark the day the headache appeared, its intensity, duration, and timing during the day. In addition, they will fill the various triggers offered (such as sleep hours, exercise time, screen hours, and a subjective sense of academic or emotional stress) on days with headache and on every weekend. We will then divide the participants into two groups - those who suffer from a headache in the middle of the week only (MWH) and those who suffer from a headache at the weekend (WH), compare the demographic and clinical characteristics and we will try to understand the triggers of these two groups. Patients will also be asked a questionnaire which will define whether they are having difficulty in school (Appendix 2) so that we can examine the distribution of headaches of this group during the week. A physician who works on the research team will proactively verify that the questionnaire is filled out consistently and accurately. Additional data will be collected from the medical record.
The current study aims to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a combination of various objective biomarkers for the diagnosis of PTSD.
Many patients with Parkinson's disease suffer of gait disorder termed as "freezing of gait" (FOG). non-pharmacological approach such as applying external cues is effective in mitigating FOG events. The aim of this study is to test the feasibility and patients satisfaction from a first stage of technology development, designed to deliver automatically external cues to the patients in their homes.