Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

This pilot study tests whether fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) – taking capsules made from healthy donor stool – is a feasible and acceptable treatment for 20 teens (ages 12-17) with anorexia nervosa. Participants will take FMT or placebo capsules twice a day, twice a week for …

This study tests whether washing the surgical wound and the new prosthetic graft with a hypochlorous acid solution at the end of surgery can prevent infections. Participants are adults having open surgery to insert a synthetic bypass graft for narrowed or blocked arteries. The st…

This study looks at whether adding a second antibiotic (vancomycin) to the standard one (cefazolin) or giving antibiotics for a longer time can prevent serious infections after open-heart surgery. About 38,000 adults having heart surgery will be randomly assigned to one of four a…

This study tests a new imaging system that uses a fluorescent dye and artificial intelligence during colonoscopy to measure how leaky the gut lining is in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It includes 70 adults (60 with IBD and 10 without) at three Canadian hospitals.…

VISION-2 is a large observational study of 20,000 older adults having noncardiac surgery. Participants will wear a continuous vital signs monitor for up to 30 days after surgery. The goal is to find early warning signs of serious complications like heart injury, severe bleeding, …