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.
Intra-coronary stents deployment reduces the rate of angiographic restenosis as compared to Balloon angioplasty. in-stent restenosis, usually defined as ≥50 percent diameter stenosis within previously deployed stent, is most often becoming clinically evident within the first 6 to 12 months after the stent was deployed. Several risk factors are predictors for the development of in-stent restenosis. These can be generally calcified as either clinical, angiographic or procedural related factors. However it is difficult to estimate to what extent In stent re-stenosis is influenced by these various components. Drug eluting stent, as compared to bare metal stents, markedly reduced the incidence of angiographic in-stent restenosis. However this benefit must be weighed against a suggested increased risk of late and very late stent thrombosis, a catastrophic event often leading to myocardial infarction and death. Often in patients with existing risk factors for in-stent restenosis, drug eluting stents will be deployed even in cases where patency of a previously deployed bare metal stent have been demonstrated. Therefore the researchers sought to investigate whether in patients with previously deployed bare metal stent and no evidence of in-stent re-stenosis there will be a significant difference in the rates of in-stent between drug eluting stents and bare metal stents deployed within de-novo stenotic lesions.
To compare two methods of chest impedance: the Medtronics Optivol Measurement via CRT pacemakers for patients with heart failure and external non-invasive measurement
The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of a one-time intranasal administration of the oxytocin, vasopressin, or placebo on prosocial decision making such as cooperation and altruism in a healthy population of student controls.
The study must be performed in 100 patients suffering from morbid obesity, the procedure will be performed under general anesthesia doing two or three layers of suture to achieves gastric imbrication until transform the stomach to a sleeve. The patients will be followed during the time for 6 month, 1 year, two years and 5 years.
The concept of breath testing for various diseases has been around since ancient greece. It has been hypothesized that cancer is generating a unique pattern of compounds in patients' breath. This study is trying to characterize a novel system, based on nanoparticles technology, for cancer diagnosis through breath samples.
Chronic pain is common. Up to 10% of the Population has been estimated to suffer from chronic pain and up to 5% of the female population has been estimated to suffer from widespread, chronic pain and tenderness, thus fulfilling American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for classification of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). FMS is characterized by the presence of both allodynia and hyperalgesia. FMS is also characterized by disturbances of the autonomic nervous system such as orthostatic intolerance, postural tachycardia etc. The effect of these conditions during gestation and post partum periods is not well known. Parturition is a complex process which involves multiple endocrine and physiological changes within a short period of time. Severe pain is an important attribute of this natural process. The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the impact of chronic central pain on the process of parturition. Our hypothesis is, that women demonstrating signs, symptoms and a history of central pain, before the onset of active labor, will differ from women not demonstrating such traits; these women may require earlier higher does of analgesia, and may demonstrate increased hemodynamic lability during labor and delivery.
The investigators propose that paracetamol will be similarly effective to ibuprofen in treating PDA in the premature neonate, with fewer side effects.
Capecitabine is a common anti cancer drug. One of the most common side effects is a syndrome called hand and foot syndrome which comprises of hands and feet redness, swelling, dryness and painful sores. Quite often the drug dose is reduced to suboptimal level due to this side effect. There is no way to prevent or an effective way to treat this side effect. The investigators aim is to investigate whether wearing socks which contain copper fibers may prevent or alleviate the patient symptoms.
The diagnosis of neurodegenerative conditions and ADHD still mostly relies on clinical symptoms as there are no validated, inexpensive, and simple bio- markers available yet. The purpose of this study is to deliver a proof-of-concept for novel biomarkers to identify neurodegenerative conditions and ADHD based on breath testing. Alveolar breath will be collected from healthy volunteers, patients with extrapyramidal conditions, patients diagnosed with dementia and from ADHD subjects. The discriminative power of a tailor-made Nanoscale Artificial Nose (™NA-NOSE) containing an array of six nanomaterial-based sensors will be tested. Discriminant factor analysis will be applied to the NA-NOSE signals in order to detect statistically significant differences between the sub-populations, and classification success will be estimated using leave-one-out cross-validation. The identification of NA-NOSE patterns will be supported by analyzing the chemical composition of the breath using gas-chromatography in conjunction with mass-spectrometry (GC-MS).
Preeclampsia is a form of hypertension that is unique to human pregnancy. The incidence of the disease ranges between 2 and 7 percent in healthy nulliparous women. The etiology of preeclampsia is unknown. Women with preeclampsia may exhibit a symptom complex ranging from minimal BP elevation to derangements of multiple organ systems. The renal, hematologic, and hepatic systems are most likely to be involved. More than 100 clinical, biophysical, and biochemical tests have been recommended to predict or identify the patient at risk for the future development of the disease. The results of the pooled data for the various tests and the lack of agreement between serial tests suggest that none of these clinical tests is sufficiently reliable for use as a screening test in clinical practice. As a result there is obviously a great need to develop a novel technology for the early detection of this pregnancy complication before its clinical manifestations appear. An early detection can help in early treatment to prevent or at least minimize the sequel of this disease. The aim of this project is the early detection of "Preeclampsia" and other pregnancy complications using volatile biomarkers appearing in exhaled breath and/or blood samples, using a simple and inexpensive toll termed NA-NOSE. Phase-I: The primary phase of this project is the comparison between volatile biomarkers' patterns of pregnant women suffering from "Preeclampsia", pregnant women that are considered to have "Normal Pregnancy", and healthy "Non-Pregnant" women. Phase-II: The secondary phase of this project is the ability to predict "Preeclampsia", as compared, head-to-head, with other potential predictors used in the current clinical practice.