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 COVID-19 pandemic crisis is associated with a wide range of stressors for the general population. For forcibly displaced persons (FDPs), the turmoil of this crisis is magnified significantly, and elevated pre-existing post-migration stressors and trauma-related mental health problems are acutely amplified. In a recent randomized control trial, Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R) led to large acute stress-buffering effects among Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel. The investigators thus developed Mindfulness-SOS for Refugees - a brief internet-based mobile-supported adaptation of the MBTR-R mental health intervention program - specifically designed to mitigate acute stress and related mental health symptoms among FDPs. The investigators will conduct a nonrandomized single-group intervention trial of the efficacy, safety, utilization, and related feasibility of Mindfulness-SOS for Refugees among a traumatized chronically stressed sample of East African asylum seekers in an urban post-displacement setting in the Middle East (Israel). The study will be carried out during an acutely stressful period of time for this population due to a COVID-19 pandemic national lockdown.
This study is a multi-center, single arm, open label, retrospective and prospective clinical data collection of CascadeTM, Non-Occlusive Remodeling Net, in adults with intracranial aneurysms, demonstrating the effectiveness and safety of the CascadeTM in providing temporary assistance for coil embolization of intracranial aneurysms. All consecutive eligible patients from all participating sites will be included in this clinical data collection. The relevant data of the coil embolization procedure will be collected via an eCRF system. Peri procedural data on the coil embolization procedure as well as discharge, 30 days and at 3-6 months status will be collected.
Exercise induced asthma (EIA) is common in adolescents. (Fluticasone furoate (FF)/Vilanterol (VI)) is a once daily inhaler with bronchodilator effect lasting 24 hours. Our objective was to investigate the short and long-term effects of FF/VI on EIA in adolescents. Adolescent asthmatics were referred for evaluation of EIA. Patients with a positive exercise challenge test, were allocated to a single administration of salbutamol and 22 to FF/VI in a double blind, double dummy method to assess the short-term effect on EIA. Then they received FF/VI for 30-60 days and were reassessed by a repeat exercise test 24-hours after the last dose.
Although attention is thought to have a definitive functional role in mindfulness meditation training and its salutary mechanisms of action, extant empirical evidence is mixed and limited. In the proposed study, we propose to test whether 6 to 7-days mindfulness meditation retreats (N=90), relative to a wait-list control condition (N=45), will impact internal attentional processes or attention to internal experience (e.g., thoughts and bodily sensations); and whether these internal attentional change processes predict salutary outcomes of mindfulness meditation retreats. Participants will complete tasks designed to measure attention to internal experience before and then immediately following the retreat, as well as self-report measures of salutary outcomes before and 2-weeks post-retreat. Matched controls will complete the tasks at parallel time-points in the lab.
As Israel is the first country to widely vaccinate its population using the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, evaluating its influence on ovarian reserve is essential .
Although scientific bodies have recognized obesity as a disease, obese people are often stigmatized, facing discrimination, and accusations that they are responsible to their condition due to their lack of willpower by healthcare professionals. However, experimental research to reduce weight bias among healthcare professionals is lacking, and published studies to date are methodologically flawed, including lack of randomization, lack of control group and small sample size. The study is designed to evaluate the effect of a comprehensive online education module on knowledge about obesity and weight bias in a convenience sample in a private hospital setting. This is an interventional study conducted among all Assuta Medical Centers healthcare employees including physicians, bariatric surgeons, nurses, dietitians, social workers, physiotherapists, pharmacists, imaging department technicians, laboratory workers, patient services assistants and medical secretariats. Participants who will confirm their consent to participate in the study, will be randomized into two arms: intervention vs. control (with no intervention). The study intervention will include an online 15-minute educational module which will be based on relevant literature and expert opinion and will include four sections: a) Knowledge about obesity; b) Weight bias definition and impact; c) Strategies to reduce weight bias; d) A short quiz. At baseline, one week and one-month post intervention, both groups will respond to an anonymous on-line survey on knowledge about obesity and weight stigma. Moreover, data on demographic parameters of study participants will be collected.
This is a Phase III, multicenter, randomized, double-masked, active comparator-controlled, parallel-group study evaluating the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of faricimab administered by intravitreal (IVT) injection at 4-week intervals until Week 24, followed by a double-masked period of study without active control to evaluate faricimab administered according to a personalized treatment interval (PTI) dosing regimen in patients with macular edema due to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) or hemiretinal vein occlusion (HRVO).
This is a Phase III, multicenter, randomized, double-masked, active comparator-controlled, parallel-group study evaluating the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of faricimab administered by intravitreal (IVT) injection at 4-week intervals until Week 24, followed by a double-masked period of study without active control to evaluate faricimab administered according to a personalized treatment interval (PTI) dosing regimen in participants with macular edema due to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).
Background: Sepsis is one of the most common reasons for admission to intensive care units (ICU) worldwide. About 30% of all patients admitted to intensive care suffer from sepsis (1). Sepsis causes an extreme physiological stress response, with significant changes in metabolism and disruption in glucose regulation. Disorder of glucose regulation can lead to hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia and glucose variability (2). All of these conditions are associated with increased mortality (3). In critically-ill patients, the glucose threshold from which damage may be caused remains controversial. Hyperglycemia often occurs in critically-ill patients suffering from sepsis, even in those who were not diabetic before, for several reasons. Sepsis causes massive activation of anti-inflammatory mediators which enhances the activity of counter-regulatory hormones, including cortisol, glucagon and catecholamines. Those hormones increase both hepatic gluconeogenesis and peripheral resistance to insulin (4). Some of the detrimental effects of hyperglycemia in septic patients are mediated via hyperglycemia-induced blood hypercoagulable state, decrease of vascular endothelial responsiveness and disrupted process of phagocytosis and chemotaxis of white blood cells, especially neutrophils (5). It is widely accepted that disordered blood glucose regulation increases mortality and morbidity, as well as hospital admission times and associated financial expenses (2,6). Blood glucose level at ICU admission was found to be a poor prognostic factor at various studies on different ICU patient populations (7-9). For example, in ICU patients admitted due to acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock and need for urgent cardiac catheterization, high blood glucose levels at admission, even in non-diabetic patients, were associated with both increased in- hospital and long-term mortality (7). Among patients admitted due to acute heart failure, high admission glucose levels (above 200 mg / dL), in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients, were associated with higher mortality from cardio-vascular etiologies within one year of admission (8). Among non-diabetic patients admitted to the hospital due to acute myocardial infarction, admission glucose levels above 180 mg / dL were associated with a significant increase in all-causes in-hospital mortality (9). However, there is currently insufficient information regarding the prognostic impact of high admission glucose levels of non-diabetic septic patients admitted to the ICU (10).
The doctor-patient relationship, medical competence and patient expectations influence patient satisfaction with anesthesia. Preoperatively all patients are routinely assessed by an anesthesiologist. However, in many centers, the anesthesiologist who performs the preoperative evaluation will not necessarily be the anesthesiologist who provides the intraoperative service. This study evaluated the effect of this practice on patient satisfaction, level of confidence and anxiety among adult patients undergoing elective surgery.