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 implantation rate after frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles depends mostly on the receptivity of the endometrium and the embryo quality.The effects of human chorionic gonadotropins (hCG) on the endometrium have been investigated for several years. hCG was shown to up-regulate gene expression during the differentiation of human endometrial stromal cells into decidua. The aim of our study was to assess the benefit of hCG supplementation throughout the secretory phase of artificial frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles.
We wish to determine the best treatment for expulsion of lower ureteral stones. Which of the three major treatment protocols is the best treatment of conservative management of ureteral stones?
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether TroVax, when added to first line standard of care therapy, improves survival for patients with locally advanced or metastatic clear cell renal adenocarcinoma.
Alefacept (AMEVIVE®) is an immunosuppressive dimeric fusion protein that consists of the extracellular CD2-binding portion of the human leukocyte function antigen-3 (LFA-3) linked to the Fcof IgG1. Alefacept is produced by recombinant DNA technology in a Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) mammalian cell expression system. It was shown to interfere with lymphocyte activation. Alefacept was evaluated in two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in adults with chronic plaque psoriasis. Each course consisted of once-weekly administration for 12 weeks of placebo or alefacept. The response to alefacept was significantly better in both studies. In both studies, onset of response to alefacept treatment (defined as at least 50% reduction of baseline Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI)) began 60 days after the start of therapy. With one course of therapy, the median duration of response (defined as maintenance of a 75% or greater reduction in PASI) was 3.5 months for alefacept treated patients and 1 month for placebo-treated patients. Most patients who had responded to either alefacept or placebo maintained a 50% or greater reduction in PASI through the 3-month observation period. Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is the most ominous side effect of allogenic stem cell transplantation (SCT). It causes severe inflammatory process, which is usually located to the skin, gut and liver. Treatment of GVHD consists of various immuno-suppressive and immuno-modulating drugs, including steroids, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, methotrexate etc. These drugs unfortunately can also cause severe immunologic failure that makes the patient prone to infection and malignancy, and other medication-specific side effects. In spite of this effect on the immune system, not all of the patients achieve control of GVHD, which usually rapidly leads to death. Despite the use of innovative immunosuppressive modalities, the prognosis of steroid resistant GVHD is usually poor. In the following study we will evaluate the effect of alefacept on steroid unresponsive cGVHD.
We assume that the combination of systemic steroids and inhaled steroid in the first hour of treatment in the ER will decrease the admission rate and improve faster the pulmonary function. 120 patients refferd to the ER due to asthma attack aged 18-60 with PFR < 60% 0o predicted will participate in the study after giving informed consent. The usual treatment in the ER is inhalation of Beta 2 short acting and I.V solumedrol 120 mg . The study group will recieve in addition 3 inhalation of Budesonide 1000 microgram each during the first hour. The controlled group will recieve Nacl 0.9% PFR will be followed 0 30 60 120 min.
the aim of this study is to measure brain metabolism in patients with lung cancer.FDG uptake in the brain in patients with malignant tumors will be compared to the amount of tracer activity found in patients who have benign pulmonary process. if differences between the brain uptake of FDG in the two groups will be found, further assessment will be performed in order to evaluate if such differences could be attributed and specifically localized to the brain regions innervated by the vagus
The purpose of the present study is to assess the role of hybrid PET/CT imaging diagnosis of active malignancy in cancer patients with rising tumor markers after treatment and in the diagnosis of primary tumor in patients with metastatic cancer of unknown origin. The clinical impact of PET/CT in the management and treatment of these two groups of cancer patients will be evaluated
Contemporary management of cyanotic congenital heart disease includes three stages of surgery. Incidence of shunt thrombosis and death between the two first stages of palliation remains important. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of Clopidogrel 0.2 mg/kg/day for the reduction of all cause mortality and shunt related morbidity in neonates or infants with cyanotic congenital heart disease palliated with a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt (e.g. modified Blalock Taussig Shunt [BTS]). The secondary objective was to assess the safety of Clopidogrel in the study population.
Background: Heel lancing is a routine procedure for the diagnosis of phenylketonuria in infants. Despite the short- and long-term adverse effects of pain, there are no guidelines for the reduction of such pain. Previous studies evaluated different treatment modalities; however, in most of them, pain response was assessed by subjective measures. Aims of study: 1. To characterize the pain response of infants by using a computerized analysis of the ECG. 2. To compare six different methods of pain reduction during heel lancing in newborns. Methods: The time, geometric and frequency domains of the infants' ECG will be computed during heel lancing. 150 healthy full-term infants will be evaluated in six treatment groups: breastfeeding, bottle feeding, skin-to-skin contact, lying on a table without anything, lying with a pacifier and lying while getting a glucose solution. The differences in pain response to these six treatment modalities will be assessed and compared to the infants' length of cry, and scoring of the infants' behavioral response.
The purpose of this study is to assess different doses of a new drug (BAY 59-7939), taken as a tablet, are safe and can help prevent blood clots forming after a hip replacement operation. Patients undergoing hip replacement surgery are at risk of developing blood clots. To reduce this risk treatment to prevent clots forming is routinely given. The current treatments can include injections under the skin or other treatments that need frequent blood tests to monitor levels of drug in the body. Therefore there is a need for new drugs, which are easier to give and need less monitoring.