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This study evaluates the effect of a nutrition technical assistance training program for family child care home providers on the food they serve young children in their care and the food environment in their home. Half the providers will be assigned to the nutrition program and t…

Spatial neglect may occur in patients who have had a stroke. People with spatial neglect often pay much more attention to one side of the body while ignoring the other side, even though they have no difficulty seeing. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact on stroke …

The aim to evaluate whether activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in PCOS is associated with transient microstructural and metabolic changes in the female hypothalamus using MRI approaches to assess water diffusion and measure proton magnetic resonance spectra.

The investigators are seeking healthy adult participants 18-60 years and healthy pregnant women in their 2nd trimester of pregnancy for a research study to assess a new imaging device. The Tearney Laboratory at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospita…

This study aims to investigate whether the spacing of the interrupted deep (subdermal) sutures affects surgical wound cosmesis on the trunk and extremities. In other words, the investigator would like to determine which of the following yields a more cosmetically appealing scar: …

The goal of the proposed study is to determine the effects of fresh watermelon fruit consumption on satiety, metabolic parameters and weight management.

Background: This study is designed to provide samples to help us study the genes your blood cells are making as well as the proteins, sugars, fats, vitamins and other metabolites found in your blood or urine. Blood samples may also be collected to make special cells. These are c…

The investigators intented to assess the prevalence of acute injuries in amateur and elite mountain bikers.

This study aims at describing the glucose level by automated glucose sensors and correlating it with insulin delivery and meals over 14 days in insulin-requiring T2D patients living in real-life conditions.

This pilot study will first establish the feasibility of an in vivo methodology of assessing the utilization of glutamine into the TCA cycle of normal bone marrow plasma cells from healthy subjects while comparing it to an ex vivo approach

The fracture of the proximal femur is a common traumatic pathology in patients aged over 70 years, associated with a mortality of 20 to 30% a year. The care is delayed emergency. During this wait, the occurrence of heel pressure ulcers is regularly found, despite wearing antiesca…

Background: People who join a study in the Developmental Therapeutics Clinic (DTC) have tests. These include blood draws and biopsies. Researchers collect data from these samples. Some people take part in more than one study at the DTC. At this time, data are connected only with…

Patients who are intubated and mechanically ventilated for acute respiratory failure in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are at some point eligible for weaning. The common way to wean them from mechanical ventilation is to screen criteria for feasibility and, if present, to test fea…

Prospective Italian study aimed to provide a description of the population affected by Epithelioid Sarcoma (ES)

This study evaluates if measuring resting metabolic rate (the number of calories the body burns at rest) before surgery can help predict successful weight loss after surgery.

An open label observational registry trial in which participating centers enroll subjects who had or will have a laparoscopically assisted surgery using the Senhance Surgical System.

TARGET-IBD is a 5-year, longitudinal, observational study of adult and pediatric patients (age 2 and above) being managed for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in usual clinical practice. TARGET-IBD will create a research registry of patients with IBD within academic and community…

The study aims at investigating social cognition outcomes of children born prematurely. Social cognition can be briefly defined as a process which underlines people's social and emotional behaviors. There are behavioral and cognitive evidences indicating that preterm children hav…

Assessment of the feasibility of a monitoring device by SMS in which messages are sent by the caregiver after a suicidal act.

The goal of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of intraoral impressions obtained using the Trios 3Shape® and Carestream CS 3600™ scanners, as well as traditional analog impressions using polyvinyl siloxane (PVS), in comparison to a gold standard represented by a laboratory sc…