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.
To assess the long-term effects of early therapeutic intervention, i.e. within two years following a first clinical demyelinating event suggestive of MS.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global health problem, which may lead to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic decompensation and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recently, treatment with peginterferon alfa plus ribavirin has become the standard of care for patients with chronic hepatitis C. While genotype 2 patients can have higher sustained virologic response (SVR) rates to 80-90%, genotype 1 patients generally have low SVR rates of only 40-50%. In contrast, genotype 1 Taiwanese patients have superior SVR rates than those in Western countries. Despite the overall improved response to this combination therapy, more than 75% of patients suffer from treatment-related adverse events and the costs remain high, which make individualized therapy of paramount importance to maximize treatment response and minimize adverse events. HCV viral kinetics with interferon-based therapies have been studied recently to evaluate patient responses. Early viral kinetics shown to have favorable SVR rates, which make shorter treatment duration possible. However, different viral kinetics were found through ethnicity. Recently, a pilot study to evaluate the viral kinetics of 6 Taiwanese patients with HCV infection who received peginterferon alfa plus ribavirin therapy has shown superior early viral kinetics to those in Caucasian patients. Based on the favorable SVR rates in treating Taiwanese patients with chronic hepatitis C, the investigators aimed to conduct a large confirmatory study to evaluate the viral kinetics and try to define the optimal treatment for these patients.
The objectives of this study is to conduct a multicenter, dual country (United States and Israel), study examining the experience of patients with cancer that were considered by their physicians as having exceptional course of survival related to their specific disease state. The primary aim of the study is to develop a detailed description of patients' experience of an exceptional disease course. The secondary aim is to define the content domain for assessment and measurement of exceptional disease course in patients with cancer and identify lessons learned from these exceptional patients that can be a base for future studies to benefit others.
Evaluation of efficacy and safety of H-coil deep transcranial magnetic stimulation 9 week treatment trial for cannabis addiction as assessed by measures of drug intake and craving.
Curcumin is a commonly-used spice and food coloring. Evidence suggests that curcumin can suppress tumor initiation, promotion and metastasis in a variety of tumor cell lines. The current available curcumin has low bioavailability restricting the effect of curcumin in non-colon cancer. In this study we plan to test a new liquid tumeric/curcumin extract, Curcumol (patent pending, Israel Patent Application No. 181,121). We predict the bioavailability of the liquid tumeric/curcumin extract will be better compared to the currently used curcumin powder.
The purposes of this study are to assess safety, efficacy, and subject satisfaction of EPODURE Biopump (an autologous dermal biopump capable of sustained secretion of therapeutic EPO in the body, using a small tissue explant from the patient's own skin) treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients over a period of up to six (6) months.
An open-label, treat to target, intervention study in order to compare the metabolic control of once to twice-daily insulin Detemir injections in children and adolescence with type 1 diabetes mellitus. All eligible patients will be assigned to receive insulin Detemir once daily before breakfast. Short acting insulin analog, Novorapid, will be used for mealtime insulin. The starting dose of insulin Detemir will be individually determined.Based on self-measured fasting blood glucose levels, insulin doses will be titrated throughout the trial, aiming at pre-breakfast and premeal concentrations of 90-180 mg/dl for subjects aged 6-12 years and 80-130 mg/dl for subjects aged 13-18 years.Patients that after 4 weeks titration phase will not achieve the target blood glucose and up titration of insulin Detemir cannot be done, due to hypoglycemic episodes would be switched to treatment consist of twice daily insulin Detemir. If the target blood glucose are not achieved at the end of the 4 weeks titration phase, but further up titration is possible and patient does not suffer from hypoglycemic episodes, the titration period would be extended and patient would not be switched to treatment with 2 injections of insulin Detemir.When achieving blood glucose targets patient will continue until study end on the maintenance phase.
Treatment, In combination with BSC, Open-label, Single arm, Efficacy Study.
This study is performed to assess the influence of intraarticular injection of 2ml Diprospan (wich contains 4mg Betamethasone sodium phosphate and 10mg Betamethasone dipropionate) into osteoarthritic knee in patients who undergo a total knee replacement of their contralateral knee. The study population will include 50 patients with bilateral knee osteoarthritis, admitted for their first knee replacement surgery. Only patients with older than 50 years with primary osteoarthritis will be included. The patients will be randomized into 2 groups. Intervention group will receive an injection of 2ml Diprospan diluted in 10 ml Bupivocaine. The control group will receive an injection of 10ml of Bupivocaine. All patients will be followed after 6 weeks and three functional rehabilitation and pain scores will be assessed (VAS pain score, Timed Up and Go Score and Functional Ambulatory Category Scale).
Supraphysiological hormonal stimulation enables collecting many oocytes in an In-Vitro Fertilization treatment, but may have a negative effect on uterine function and contribute the fact that the majority of preembryos placed in the uterus fail to implant. Several medical agents were shown to be beneficial when given in the luteal phase of an IVF cycle, but the optimal regimen has not been yet determined. In 2006, a European group reported that addition of GnRH analog (Decapeptyl) as luteal support in IVF cycle significantly improved pregnancy and delivery rates. It is not known whether this positive effect influences the corpus luteum, embryo or the uterus. The researchers sought to evaluate the effect of GnRH administration as luteal support in frozen-thaws IVF cycle.