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Racial disparities result in Black infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) receiving less breast milk (BM) than White and Hispanic infants.1 BM improves infant health yet mothers of critically ill infants produce insufficient amounts to provide these benefits which is …

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes in which blood vessels supplying blood to the back of the eye (retina) are dysfunctional. This can lead to an improper supply of oxygen and nutrients to the retinal tissue, or it may trigger the formation of new blood vessel…

Postoperative care of patients undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is important both to minimize discomfort for the patients and to obtain the optimal long-term outcomes. Postoperative sinonasal cavity debridement has been advocated to prevent potential synechiae and sinus …

The TAVR-ELECTRO Registry (Electrophysiological Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) is a single-center, observational cohort study designed to systematically evaluate the occurrence, temporal evolution, and determinants of cardiac arrhythmias following transcat…

Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric illness with a heterogeneous disease course, varying from periods of symptomatic remission to relapse. Relative to the wealth of scientific data on the course of schizophrenia during the two years following the first psychotic episode, the o…

The objective of this project is to implement and evaluate a group model of well child care for mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder and their children that addresses the specific health needs and concerns of opioid-exposed infants, is trauma informed, and is embedded wit…

Early diagnosis of LC in the asymptomatic stage through intentional screening programs and/or incidental pulmonary nodule identification and follow-up are known to improve outcomes significantly. There are large gaps in the screening and early detection of LC, especially in LMIC …

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare liver disease that damages the liver's bile ducts. Bile ducts are tiny tubes that carry bile from the liver to the small intestine. Bile is a liquid produced by the liver that helps us absorb and use the nutrients in the food we eat.…

This clinical trial studies the effectiveness of a web-based cancer education tool called Helping Oncology Patients Explore Genomics (HOPE-Genomics) in improving patient knowledge of personal genomic testing results and cancer and genomics in general. HOPE-Genomics is a web-based…

Lymphatic transport was previously examined by these investigators using Near InfraRed Indocyanine Green fluorescence imaging (NIR-ICG) of the upper extremities. They established reliable and reproducible methodologies in RA patients. The purpose of this phase 2 pilot is to study…

This study looks at the role of the Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ receptor system in the brain of individuals with current or past major depressive disorder (MDD). It also examines how individuals with a history of depression make certain decisions and which brain regions are involved i…

A Study to Evaluate Gut Microbiome with POEMS Syndrome and Other Plasma Cell Disorders

This early phase I is to find out how common vitamin D insufficiency is among African American patients with a history of prostate cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body (localized) or has spread to other places in the body (metastatic) and how vitamin D insufficie…

The purpose of this continuation study is to provide continued access to crizotinib treatment for eligible participants from a current Pfizer sponsored crizotinib clinical study that is planned to close.

Adult patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or oligometastatic lung tumors will all receive microwave ablation (MWA) performed percutaneously by doctors who are experienced in lung tumor ablation. 120 patients will participate across 8 clinical study sites all in China…

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to a variety of different diseases characterized by impairment of kidney structure and/or renal function. The prevalence of CKD in China is as high as 10.8%. With a population of more than 150 million, China has the largest number of CKD patien…

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination therapy with HAIC-TACE and donafenib compared to TACE plus donafenib in patients with BCLC B stage unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) out of up-to-seven criteria.

To date, the end-expiratory occlusion test in infants or children has never been evaluated as a marker of preload dependence. It therefore appears clinically relevant to evaluate this new indicator to predict fluid responsiveness in all infants hospitalized in pediatric and neona…

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the major complications after cardiac surgery that may affects 20% to 40% of patients according to the definitions. Also, AKI after cardiac surgery is associated with high morbidity and mortality, with eight-fold increase in the odds ratio of d…

This study evaluates the effects of a 12-week leucine-enriched protein supplementation in adults aged 60 years and more. Participants will undergo assessments of muscle mass and function, as well as metabolic profiles in blood, urine, and feces before and after the intervention.