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 purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of alogliptin, once daily (QD), compared to glipizide in elderly diabetic patients who have not received treatment or are on a single oral medication.
For patients with chronic epiphora, Dacryocystorhinostomy is currently the gold standard treatment, with a success rate of 80-90% according to literature. Another available treatment, which is far less used, in nasolacrimal intubation, using a silicone tube. In our study, we would like to find the efficacy of nasolacrimal duct intubation, which was performed in our medical center on a few hundred patients with mild epiphora. Study hypothesis: nasolacrimal intubation in adults, with a clinically mild epiphora, is close in it's efficacy to the Dacryocystorhinostomy procedure.
PET CT is one of the imaging tools that are used for staging of urological malignancies. C11 Choline is a novel isotope with the advantage of its minimal secretion in the urine. This advantage makes it a potentially better metabolic marker then others such as FDG. Preliminary studies showed ~95% sensitivity in the diagnosis of TCC. Our Goal is to continue the evaluation of this method as a diagnostic and follow up tool in different urological malignancies.
Gaucher disease, the most prevalent lysosomal storage disorder, is caused by mutations in the human glucocerebrosidase gene (GCD) leading to reduced activity of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase and thereby to the accumulation of substrate glucocerebroside (GlcCer) in the cells of the monocyte-macrophage system. This is an extension trial to Study NCT00376168 and NCT00712348.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a chronic disease of the lung blood vessels resulting in constriction and high pressures. Treatment is given with a variety of drugs including the prostanoid class (e.g. epoprostenol, iloprost and the phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors (e.g. sildenafil). Although these drugs are known to be effective alone, little is known about combining them together in various combinations. In this trial we will add a long-acting PDE-5 inhibitor to the treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension who currently are receiving only a prostanoid drug.
The hypothesis to be tested: After the construction of a database of anthropometric measurements, the system would extract important features of a given facial surface and be able to match it with existing morphometric figures. A given combination of normal and abnormal measurements will open a "probable diagnosis" and a list of "differential diagnosis" that will be expressed as percent of matching in a descendent order to the examiner.
Purpose of this study is to evaluate efficiency and safety of Alcohol 20% for peeling pterygium and to compare 3 different methods of operative wound closure: Bare sclera, Sliding flap, Amniotic membrane + biological glue
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the progression-free survival (PFS) with XL184 as compared with placebo (an inactive substance) in subjects with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). Subjects will be randomized to receive XL184 or placebo in a 2:1 ratio. XL184 is an investigational drug that inhibits VEGFR2, MET and RET, kinases implicated in tumor formation, growth and migration. The Clinical Steering Committee for this study, comprised of study doctors who specialize in medullary thyroid cancer, has provided guidance regarding the design of the study. The committee includes: Douglas Ball, MD, Barry Nelkin, PhD, Martin Schlumberger, MD and Steven Sherman, MD.
Study Objectives The aim of the study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of 5-Aza-Cytidine + Thalidomide on the course of hrMDS patients. Primary end point: • To evaluate the overall response rate (CR+PR) of the combination of 5-Aza-Cytidine + Thalidomide in hrMDS patients (INT-2 and High risk as defined by IPSS). Secondary end points: - To evaluate the safety of the combination of Thalidomide+5-Aza-Cytidine in high risk MDS patients. - Hematological improvement rate. - Cytogenetic response. - Progression free survival (PFS). - Quality of life assessment (FACT: MDS and peripheral neuropathy QOL Questionnaires). Study design: This is a multicenter, phase II, single arm study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of Thalidomide+5-Aza-Cytidine in high risk MDS patients (INT-2 and High risk defined by IPSS) who are older than 18 years of age. Potential study subjects will sign an informed consent prior to undergoing any study related procedure. Number of patients to be enrolled 50. Treatment plan: 5-aza-cytidine (75 mg m2/d) will be injected subcutaneously in 5-day cycle every 28 days, for a total of 12 cycles. Thalidomide will be given at the dose of 50 mg/d, from day 1 until for 6 months together with 5-aza-cytidine . Treatment period includes 5-aza-cytidine (75 mg m2/d) will be injected subcutaneously in 5-day cycle every 28 days. Total number of 12 cycles or until progression or toxicity. Cycle delay of maximum 2 weeks in case of hematological toxicity grade 3-4 at investigator discretion. Duration of the follow up period is 6 months. Duration of study The duration of the treatment period is approximately 12 months. This time is required to complete the treatment, and to determine the safety profile and the response rate. The duration of the Follow period will be approximately a half year. The occurrence of PD will determine the duration of progression-free survival of each patient.
The objective of this study is to compare the progression-free survival (PFS) of the drug combination ramucirumab plus docetaxel to placebo plus docetaxel in previously untreated participants with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, unresectable, locally-recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.