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 DreaMed Advisor Pro is a software which automatically analyses treatment information, learns patient's needs and accordingly suggests adjustments in insulin dosing. DreaMed Advisor Pro is a decision- support software intended for assisting healthcare professionals in the management of type 1 diabetes patients who use insulin pumps as their insulin delivery therapy and monitor their blood glucose levels using CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) or CGM and self-management blood glucose meter. The main objective of the proposed study is to test the safety, reliability, and efficacy of the DreaMed Advisor Pro algorithm when the recommendation is sent directly to the patient without a physician review. Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either the intervention group (DreaMed Advisor Pro) or control group (standard of care). Participants will download the CGM and pump data at no less frequent than every 4 weeks for both groups during the 3 months period of the study. Each time new data is received, the following actions will be performed: In the intervention group, a new algorithm recommendation for pump settings will be issued. The recommendation will be approved by a technical, non-physician to assure that glucose data are not fall within predefined safety criteria which require a physician approval before the recommendation will be sent to the patient, otherwise, recommendation will be sent directly to the patient. In the control group, if no safety criteria is met, it is the responsibility of the patient to contact his/her physician to advise on change of treatment. In case a safety issue has occurred, the physician will contact the patient and change the pump settings. Prior to initiating the interventional phase of the study, we will evaluate the experience of patients in self adjustments of insulin dosing in regular care management and to evaluate their acceptance for using an automated dosing recommendations software. The evaluation will be done by asking patients/caregivers to fill 15 questions survey. 100 patients are anticipated to participate in this phase of the study.
Prospective, single center, open label, phase I/IIa escalating dose study. To evaluate the safety and efficacy of escalating doses of SCM-010 in subjects with SPMS.
The study will be performed in two parts: 1) The pharmacokinetic (PK) part and 2) The appetite and nutritional evaluation part. The PK part of study will be conducted in open label manner on 10 end stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) treatment. For the PK part, a starting dose of cannabis oil -1 drop of 3% cannabis oil once a day [each drop contain 1.2 mg CBD (cannabidiol) and 1.2 mg of ∆9-THC (∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol)], was judged to be safe for a first-in-MHD patient's administration. Escalation to the next higher dose and any dose adjustments of the next dose levels will be based on safety and tolerability results of the previously administered dose and available PK data of previous dose groups. Once the first dosage proved to be safe, there will be a 2 fold increase from the first dose level (2 drops once a day) to the second dose level. The dose levels will be increased by 2-fold from the previous dose level, until basal hunger and prospective consumption ratings assessed by the visual analogue scale (VAS) will increase at least by 10 mm between screening and the study visits (change-from-baseline) . PK parameters will be evaluated after first dosage administration and after dosage increased. The appetite and nutritional evaluation part of study will be conducted as a 3-month, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, single center study. The study population will include 30 ESKD patients receiving MHD treatment with different degrees of protein-energy wasting (PEW) defined as malnutrition-inflammation score (MIS) above 6. A total of 30 subjects will be randomized to treatment with either cannabis oil or matching placebo.
This is a Phase 1b, open-label, non-randomized, Dose Confirmation study. Subjects will be treated, once a week, with IV doses of Nerofe and low dose (20 mg/m2) Doxorubicin (6-8 hours from one another) in consecutive, 28-day cycles.
Identification and localization of pathological parathyroid gland before parathyroidectomy is traditionally done by a combination of two methods: ultrasound and sestamibi scan. The investigators would like to show that one exam that includes ultrasound and fine needle aspiration of the parathyroid gland for parathyroid hormone level is as accurate as the traditional method.
Prospective, baseline-controlled evaluation of the UltraShape Power device for non-invasive fat reduction in flanks.
This study aims to assess the safety and efficacy of autologous fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in gastrointestinal (GI) related graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Stool for FMT will be prepared from pre-allogeneic stem cell transplantation (Allo-SCT) period. This strategy might offer a novel and safe therapeutic approach for these patients, who suffer from high disease related morbidity and mortality and are refractory to multiple treatments.
The enteroendocrine system is composed from different cells along the different parts of the gastrointestinal tract, secreting diverse hormones and bariatric surgery alters intestinal hormone secretion, affecting glycemic control and weight. The aim of the study is to characterize the composition and secretory profile of enteroendocrine cells in the obese, non-obese and non-obese post bariatric surgery.
Antibiotic resistance has emerged world wide and is of major concern. Multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria is widely spread and is now a major factor in morbidity and mortality in health-care settings. Among MDRs, carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are of special concern, receiving the highest classification of "urgent threat level" in the US President Report. Consistent mortality rates of 40-50% are observed among inpatients with infections caused by CRE in hospitals worldwide, related mainly to unavailable, delayed or ineffective antibiotic treatment options. The extremely high mortality rates of patients with CRE infections have driven efforts to prevent the acquisition and spread of these bacteria in hospitals. These include screening for carriage, contact isolation of carriers, cohorting, dedicated healthcare staff and other infection control measures. These strategies have been proven as effective but are cumbersome and expensive. In most locations these strategies failed to completely eradicate CRE endemicity. CRE decolonization (eradication of colonization) might offer a double benefit - reducing the risk for the individual carrier to develop an infection due to the resistant strain (by that, potentially lowering the mortality risk) and preventing the bacteria from spreading to other patients, exposing them to the same hazard. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), in which fecal material enriched with commensal microorganisms is transferred from a healthy donor, have proven efficacy in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in multiple trails. Major adverse events that has been reported so far are mostly related to the route of administration (aspiration during nasogastric tube administration/colonoscopy). Other adverse events include mostly GI related symptoms (diarrhea, nausea, belching) and are self limited and resolve in few hours. FMT seems to be safe and effective both in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. The high efficacy of FMT in the treatment of a multi-drug resistant pathogen such as Clostridium difficile, suggest that it might be an efficient tool for other MDR pathogens (e.g. CRE). This study aim to assess the effects of FMT on colonization and clinical infections with CRE. The potential of FMT to restore the gut microbiome and compete with residual resistant strains offer a novel way to fight the current MDR epidemic. FMT will be applied in a randomized open label fashion to CRE carriers in a single center in Israel and will be given by capsules for 2 consecutive days followed by rectal sampling at predefined timepoint in the following 6 months.
The incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) infection in clean dermatologic surgery is very low, between 1-3%. Studies have demonstrated a much higher infection rate in skin excision surgeries in the lower limbs, up to 10% in most studies, and even 35.7% infection rate in a recent study from Australia. To our knowledge, there are no clinical trials demonstrating the efficacy of prophylactic antibiotic given prior to skin lesion excision from the lower limbs.