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.
Lower back pain is one of the most common conditions affecting humans. Lower back supports are a common device used in order to alleviate the pain. All the available back supports are wrapped around the lower back and abdomen and act as static support devices. "The hug" is a new dynamic back support where the participant actively improves his/her posture and strengthens the muscle of the lower back. This trial compares both devices and their effect on reducing lower back pain.
Protocol Synopsis: There is a link between early RSV infection and chronic respiratory morbidity. Hypothesis: Palivizumab administration may result in decreased AHR and lower respiratory morbidity. Primary objective: to evaluate prospectively the effect of palivizumab on airway reactivity (AHR) in children born at 29-32 weeks. Secondary objective: to assess prospectively the effect of palivizumab on respiratory morbidity airway inflammation and allergy in children born at 29-32 weeks. Inclusion criteria: premature babies 29-32 weeks of gestation born during 2007 and 2010. Exclusion criteria: Any mechanical ventilation or chronic diseases, e.g., bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), cystic fibrosis (CF), congenital heart disease, congenital anomalies, known immunodeficiency, or receipt of other RSV investigative vaccines or therapies. Primary end points: Airway reactivity as assessed by methacholine challenge test with determination of PC20. Secondary end points: Respiratory morbidity as assessed by questionnaire and telephone interviews. Additionally, IGE, eosinophil count, and exhaled NO will be evaluated. Sample size: 74 participants; Group I - 37 premature babies at 29-32 weeks of gestation born during 2007-2008 (before approval of Synagis for this group in Israel). Group II - 37 premature babies 29-32 weeks of gestation born during 2009-2010 (after approval of Synagis for this group in Israel). Statistics: A sample size of 37 patients was calculated as necessary to detect a difference of 0.5 SD in AHR for a 2-sided tail, with a power of 80%. Demographics and baseline characteristics will be compared using 1-way analysis of variance for quantitative variables and Fisher's exact test for categorical variables.
Working hypothesis and aims: To investigate whether progesterone treatment affects the incidence of preterm labor compared to placebo, among women with 2nd trimester bleeding. The participants will be allocated through randomization to a study or control group. Women in the study group will receive micronized progesterone 200 mg (Utrogestan, company) with an intra-vaginal tablet once daily while the control group will receive placebo. Both women and medical staff will be blinded to group allocation. Treatment will commence on the day of inclusion to the study, but not before 16 weeks and will continue until 36 weeks gestation. Data will be collected after the conclusion of pregnancy regarding the maternal and neonatal outcome.
Utilization of trans-pedicular trans-discal implants for stabilization of a single lumbar motion segment, in conjunction with posterior facets fusion. The trajectories are planned and achieved by means of the SpineAssist® system - a computerized, image-based guidance system that assists surgeons in precisely guiding spinal surgical tools and implants in line with a CT-based pre-operative plan. GO-LIF and SpineAssist are CE marked products. Thy study's objective is to to collect data regarding the ability to achieve solide fusion, comibing the GO-LIF procedure for spinal fixation and stabilization with percutaneous posterior facets fusion.
Modern orthopedic and spine surgeons strive towards minimizing surgical exposure and towards increased precision in the placement of implants. This trend requires an increased use of fluoroscopic guidance, which leads to increased exposure of the patient, surgeon and the operating room staff to radiation. Robotic assisted spine surgery is routinely performed in the authors' institution for a variety of indications such as degenerative conditions, trauma, tumors , infections and deformity correction11. The objective of this study is to compare the radiation exposure time during robotic guided vertebral body augmentation to the published results for similar surgeries.
Clopidogrel is a platelets inhibitor that is widely used particularly during and after acute coronary events and coronary interventions. Several studies have shown that some patients are resistant to clopidogrel. The resistance mechanism is not entirely clear yet, but at least in part it is related to interactions between medications. Omeprazole is a member in the family of gastric proton pump inhibitor (PPI) that are widely used in patients who receive combination of aspirin and clopidogrel in order to protect the stomach lining and prevent GI bleeding. Data from studies on platelet aggregation indicate that treatment with omeprazole may cause partial resistance to clopidogrel and increase risk for recurrent cardiovascular events in patients after coronary interventions. Recently the FDA published struck to avoid cross clopidogrel and omeprazole treatment for fear of reduction efficiency. Nevertheless there are several studies that do not support increased risk of cardiovascular events among patients taking omeprazole and clopidogrel, as the COGENT trial which is the single prospective controlled study that assessed the clinical implication of this drugs interaction. The accepted Mechanism of interaction between omeprazole and clopidogrel is disturbance to create clopidogrel active metabolite through CYP2C19 inhibition by omeprazole. fluvoxamine - is a member in SSRIs family and a potent inhibitor of the CYP2C19. In vivo studies compared the degree of decomposition proguanil (a CYP2C19 indicator) by fluvoxamine and omeprazole found constant inhibition- Ki = 10 Micromol / L for of Omeprazole versus constant inhibition- Ki = 0.69 Micromol / L for fluvoxamine. This indicates a more potent inhibition of CYP2C19 in vivo of fluvoxamine compared to omeprazole. It is important to note that so far there is no date in literature studies demonstrates that there is any interaction between fluvoxamine and other CYP2C19 inhibitors and Clopidogrel. Research goals: - To assess the impact of fluvoxamine and omeprazole on platelet reactivity in healthy individuals treated with clopidogrel. - To verify weather the mechanism of omeprazole-clopidogrel interaction is related to CYP2C19 inhibition. Study design: Randomized blinded placebo-controlled crossover trial on healthy volunteers. The response to clopidogrel will be assessed using two methods in subjects receiving clopidogrel and one of the study drugs: fluvoxamine, omeprazole or placebo.
This is a Single -arm, open-label, before-and after exploratory trial of 90 days of Femarelle ® to improve NAFLD and the metabolic syndrome. Ingestion of Femarelle will improve non alcoholic steatohepatitis and the metabolic syndrome in patients suffering from these conditions. Subjects will receive treatment with Femarele 530 mg (1 capsule twice a day) for 90 days and will then be monitored off study treatment for an additional 4 weeks.
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravenous valproate in pediatric status epilepticus and acute repetitive seizures as part of seizure treatment protocol in pediatric ER
The metabolic syndrome is a collection of related risk factors that predispose to the development of type 2 diabetes Mellitus and cardiovascular disease. The investigators will examine the hypothesis that the metabolic and genomic characteristics of patients with metabolic syndrome and/or diabetes that are at risk for developing complications differ from each other and can be detected using specific biomarkers in blood or in the exhaled breath. Early detection of these individuals will enable personalized treatment to prevent and treat diabetes and its complications
Personalization of AML therapy, require a reliable mechanism for accurate characterization of patient specific leukemia phenotype and genotype. Patient's specific leukemic phenotype or in practical clinical term, patient's leukemia sensitivity to induction therapy, should best investigated in-vivo during induction. Elimination of circulating leukemic blasts from peripheral blood by day 5 was shown to discriminate between good responders with superior long term survival and poor responders with poor outcome. However, many AML patients have no circulating blasts at diagnosis and even in those who have, elimination rate of it from peripheral blood was never correlated with actual response in bone marrow. Currently, the only available source for patient's specific leukemia profile, is the bone marrow sample at diagnosis. Since leukemic blasts are heterogeneous and come from multiple different clones, "on diagnosis" marrow consist a spectrum of chemotherapy sensitive and resistance clones. Clones may vary by their molecular abnormalities and results from "on diagnosis" marrow may overlook minor resistant but existing clones. Long term prognosis is determined by those resistant clones and though our interests should be focused into the abnormalities of these clones. Residual blasts on day 5 marrow may better represent the profile of patient's leukemic resistant clones.