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 entry of digitization into the world in recent years is helping the health care system to operate more efficiently than in the past and has increased the participation of patients and their families in managing their health care. In a rare disease, such as Gaucher disease, patient involvement through digital technology is of great importance. Gaucher patients come for an inspection at the Gaucher unit once every six months. However, medical events, related and unrelated to Gaucher, may occur between these visits, some of which may be urgent. A digital Gaucher platform will allow for the updating of medical events occurring in the patient between these visits and will allow specialists to give up-to-date medical advice to the patient and the local doctor when needed. The Gaucha Digital Platform will provide digital tools (and applications) for self-management, monitoring and regular contact with the Gaucher Unit. The system will have an alert system that will allow accessible communication between the patient and the Gaucher unit. Moreover, patients with Gaucher disease need a lifelong commitment to their care; Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) and substrate inhibitor therapy (SRT). When patients are monitored only once or twice a year, monitoring adherence to treatment may be a problem. Adherence to the treatment regimen is essential for achieving normalization. The system will have a system of reminders for treatment and a system for monitoring the receipt of treatment. The digital system will include quality of life questionnaires and pain questionnaires that will help to more comprehensively understand the patient's condition. Finally, a Gaucher-adapted digital platform will ensure the collection of all relevant clinical data that is important for the treatment of a rare and multi-systemic disease such as Gaucher disease. A complete database will make it possible to create an anonymous database that will be used to find predictors of response to treatment, complications and commodities associated with Gaucher disease.
Many patients admitted to the general intensive care unit suffer from pain, whether acute or chronic. Those patients include post-operative patients, multi trauma, acute pancreatitis and patients with multiple rib fractures. Most patients in the intensive care unit, whether intubated and ventilated or not, are treated with systemic analgesic drugs, usually given intravenously, enterally, or trans dermally (fentanyl patches). Continuous epidural anesthesia has been shown in several studies to have an advantage over systemic analgesia in specific conditions, such as pancreatitis, multiple rib fractures and upper abdominal surgeries. Some of its benefits include improved gastrointestinal motility (reduction of ileus rates), decreased thromboembolic events (DVT) and better quality of pain control. In intubated and ventilated patients, continuous epidural anesthesia may reduce the amount of required systemic sedation. Reducing the amount of sedation may contribute to a decrease in delirium rates, shortening the time to extubation and reducing other adverse effects associated with high requirements of sedation drugs (such as a decrease in blood pressure). Most of the studies comparing systemic analgesia to epidural analgesia examined a population of patients hospitalized in the surgical ward, post breast, abdominal or orthopedic surgeries of the pelvis and lower extremities, or due to other conditions such as pancreatitis or multiple rib fractures. There are almost no studies that have examined the effectiveness of epidural analgesia in patients admitted to the intensive care unit, including sedated and ventilated patients, compared with systemic analgesia. From 2011 until today, our intensive care unit has admitted about 300 patients who were treated with continuous epidural analgesia. In this study we would like to compare them to another group of patients (about 300 patients as well), who were admitted to the unit for similar etiologies (post-operative, multi- trauma, pancreatitis, etc.), and to observe differences between the groups. We would like to examine differences in mortality within 28 days, as well as differences in morbidity, such as the level of analgesia and delirium rates between groups.
Data analysis concerning four sets of metrics: A. Per-treatment patterns of REN use as a standalone treatment vs. in combination with medications. B. Per-user Intra-individual consistency of efficacy across multiple treatments (consistency defined as a response to treatment in at least 50% of treatments). C. Distribution of treatment intensity among users (the electroceutical equivalent to treatment dose). D. Prevalence and severity of adverse events.
Insulin resistance is defined as a decrease in the ability of insulin to lower blood glucose levels. Various pathological conditions can cause an increase in insulin resistance, such as sepsis, administration of certain medications, various stressful situations, surgery or significant injuries, etc. Sepsis can cause extreme stress, which causes significant changes in metabolism, disruption of blood glucose regulation and increased insulin resistance. In sepsis there is an extreme activation of inflammatory mediators and of counter-regulatory hormones, such as cortisol, glucagon and catecholamines, which increase hepatic gluconeogenesis on the one hand, and increase the peripheral resistance to insulin on the other hand. Disorder in the regulation of blood glucose level causes increased mortality and morbidity among intensive care unit patients with sepsis, as well as an increase in the duration of hospitalization and its financial expenses. There are a number of parameters used in the intensive care unit to diagnose the development of sepsis within the unit, such as an increase or decrease in body temperature, an increase in CRP level, white blood cell count, pro-calcitonin level, etc It is possible that an increase in insulin resistance can also be used as a predictor of sepsis. It should be noted that almost all patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit are treated with a continuous infusion of insulin to balance their blood glucose level, including patients who are not diagnosed with diabetes prior to their hospitalization in the unit. This is in light of the increase in insulin resistance for the reasons listed above among patients in critical condition, and also due to the need to maintain blood glucose values in the range of 140-180 mg/dl, since high blood glucose values among patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We would therefore like to investigate whether an increase in insulin resistance, as expressed in an increase in the patient's insulin intake, can predict the development of sepsis secondary to bacteremia in the intensive care unit.
The purpose of this study is to determine the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) regimen(s) of JNJ-78306358 in Part 1 (Dose Escalation) and to determine the safety of JNJ-78306358 at the RP2D regimen(s) in Part 2 (Dose Expansion).
The research goal is to find a correlation between patient personality characteristics, patients' mood and glycemic control. Eventually, using this information may allow treating physicians the ability to better balance glucose blood levels in patients with T1DM, by recognizing influencing psychological parameters. The conclusion from this research will add to other physiological parameters that are being studied today, and in the future will be integrated into an artificial pancreas. The investigators believe that there is a correlation that hasn't been studied in the past between personality characteristics, daily emotions and the ability to balance glucose blood levels in patients with T1DM.
Parotidectomy is the treatment of choice for tumors in the parotid gland, with the modified Blair is the most common incision used. In our medical center, the incision is tailored to the size and location of the specific parotid tumor. This retrospective analysis aims to determine the incidence of complications and to assess the relation between the mass and scar characteristics in patients who had undergone parotidectomy.
The purpose of this feasibility study is to evaluate subject safety of using the Klue Health app utilizing meal gesture micro insulin dosing (meal gesture dosing) within the AHCL system in adult subjects with type 1 diabetes in a clinic setting.
The Study was divided into three Phases: Screening Phase (1-2 weeks); Treatment Phase (~ 1 month); and Follow-up Phase (two weeks). During the Screening Phase, blood samples were taken for analysis of blood count, liver and kidney functions from potential appropriate diabetic patients with chronic wounds in their foot. Stable chronic diabetic patients, whose wounds were not infected and the wound size increased or did not decreased by more than 25% per week or 35% by SOC treatment during the Screening Phase, and who will meet all other study inclusion criteria, were enrolled and start the 4 weeks Treatment Phase. The wounds were then treated by applying the Copper Oxide containing Dressings (COD) that were changed twice a week. In the two weeks post-treatment period, the patient received standard of care (SOC) dressing. In that time period, the patient were seen once after two weeks. The Primary outcome was the evaluation of the safety of the COD and the secondary outcomes were the evaluation of the wound size change of the foot wounds when using COD. Measures that were assessed included 1. Percent change in wound size during the Treatment Phase, 2. Rate of increase in extent and quality (color) of granulation tissue, 3. Infectious episodes during the Treatment Phase.
This study is about teenagers and adults with hereditary angioedema (HAE) type I and type II. In this study, the burden of illness means the impact of HAE in terms of long-term health outcomes and the financial cost. The main aims of this study are as follows: - to learn how often, how severe and where on the body HAE attacks occur. - to describe how HAE prophylaxis and on-demand medicines are prescribed and used. (Prophylaxis medicines prevent a bleed from happening and on-demand medicines treat a bleed when it occurs.) This study is about collecting data only; participants will not receive treatment as part of this study. Existing data available in the participant's medical records will be collected. Participants will be asked to complete an electronic questionnaire either on a website or by using an app on their mobile phone; data from this questionnaire will also be collected. Participants do not need to visit their doctor in addition to their normal visits.