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A multicenter, prospective randomized controlled trial comparing the Persona knee system to the Nexgen knee system in total knee arthroplasty.

This study is divided into four groups. Group 1 includes Health Fairs implemented at NYC taxi garage bases and airport taxi holding lots and pedometers. Group 2 includes Health Fairs, pedometers and text messaging to facilitate walking and living a healthier lifestyle. Group 3 in…

INESS Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Orthopedic Guide recommends the use of Cefazolin at induction for all orthopaedic procedure with implantation of internal fixation device. With the increasing rate of identified P. acnes shoulder surgery infection despite the use of recommended ski…

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of the study drug known as LY3200882 in participants with solid tumors.

This study uses a meal-challenge protocol to assess if patients with anorexia nervosa show a differential metabolism in response to food in comparison to healthy controls. This study determines how heritable and biochemical factors influence food metabolism in anorexia nervosa in…

The purpose of the study is to evaluate prospectively the clinical benefits of 2 different flow with High flow nasal canula (HFNC: 2l/kg/min) versus (HFNC: 2l/kg/min) in the initial management of bronchiolitis in infants. Design: Prospective, controlled, randomized, multi-center…

The study will compare therapeutic efficacy of a novel spinal cord stimulation leads implant based on anatomical landmarks with standard surgical implantation technique.

The primary goal of this study is to establish a database of people with varying levels of hepatic fibrosis and various etiologies of liver disease for use in future research protocols.

The investigators will focus on three cohorts of brain tumor patients aged, 4-18 years, to answer two critical questions: 1) Can the investigators acquire high quality data relevant to cognitive function during the peri-diagnostic period and, 2) can the investigators develop pred…

The study is a post-authorization, prospective, voluntary registry of patients treated with commercial metreleptin including, but not limited to, patients in the US and EEA.

This study involves a long-term outcome study of the Catholic Health Initiative St. Joseph's Children (CHI SJC) program using a randomized control study. The purpose of this study is to determine the short-term and long-term impact and effectiveness of the CHI SJC program. The C…

Renal transplant patients have on average 3-5 times more risk of developing cancer than the general population. This rate can be increased up to 10 to 15 times in some type of cancer like kidney cancer. Among the identified risk factors, immunosuppressants and, in particular, cal…

Current international guidelines suggest a restrictive transfusion strategy, setting that Hb level at 7 g/dl is a reasonable threshold. However, the idea of having only one threshold for all the patients has been challenged by authors, suggesting a more liberal strategy for certa…

Persistent insomnia has a high prevalence in French general population affecting between 15.8 % and 19 % of adults. In France, the disease is mainly managed by general practitioners (GP) who usually proposed intermediate half-life benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in first-line treatme…

Ultrasound-guided interscalene block (ISB) is the reference technique for pain control after ambulatory upper limb surgery, but supraclavicular block (SCB) is an alternative procedure. We compared the efficacy of these two techniques in patients undergoing ambulatory arthroscopic…

Single-arm, prospective, multi-center observational study of the clinical use of the ex-vivo perfusion of the heart with the Organ Care System (OCS™)

Gait and balance disorders represent the main motor disability in advanced Parkinson's disease. These symptoms are less or unresponsive to levodopa treatment and are considered to be a contraindication for deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. Falls and freezing of g…

Tools have been developed in our unit to calculate the inter-dose AUC (Area Under Curve) of immunosuppressive drugs (ISD) based on a limited number of blood concentrations (i.e., blood samples) using Bayesian methods. Since 2005, we have implemented these tools in an expert syste…

The Global Angelman Syndrome Registry is an online patient organisation driven registry to collect information about the natural history of children and adults with Angelman Syndrome. The registry will facilitate 1) recruitment for clinical trials into therapies and interventions…

This study consists of two projects: Project 1: The study team will create and refine the CFI-EA by enrolling 3 clinicians and 9-12 patients to test the CFI-EA's feasibility and acceptability from patient and clinician feedback in a pre-pilot trial. The study team will first tra…