All Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a program to optimize patient physical fitness and nutrition ("prehabilitation") prior to and after plastic surgery involving the abdomen improves surgical outcomes. The investigators hope to determine how a multimodal peri-operative prehabilitation program can be most effective in engaging and motivating patients to physically and mentally get ready for an abdominally-based plastic surgery operation. The overall goal is to determine if this program will improve post-operative recovery after abdominally-based plastic surgery. The importance of this new knowledge is better understanding of ways that plastic surgeons can improve outcomes, engagement, and experience of patients undergoing abdominally-based plastic surgery operations. This would translate to increased healthcare value and better long-term outcomes. Read Less

The goal of this research study is to compare the impact of video directly observed therapy on inhaler technique accuracy with participants receiving video directly observed therapy vs. participants receiving standard asthma care. Participants will be randomized between the two groups. We will follow up and compare the two groups to see if they have improved asthma control as measured by symptom-free days, higher inhaler technique at 3-month follow up, higher checklist scores on a standardized inhaler technique checklist, higher proportion of days covered (PDC) of their inhaled asthma controller medication, and have fewer acute care visits for asthma. Read Less

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent disorder with adverse neurocognitive and cardio-metabolic outcomes. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the gold standard therapeutic option to treat airway obstructions during sleep and thus, prevent its adverse cardiovascular and neurocognitive outcomes. Previous clinical trials, however, have largely failed to show a consistent impact of CPAP on these health outcomes. One of the main limitations of these trials may be the inadequate characterization of OSA and its acute physiological consequences. By characterizing OSA based on the "apnea-hypopnea index (AHI)", there is a potential risk of negative results. In this trial, the investigators intend to tackle this issue, by better characterization of OSA-related physiological consequences during sleep using physiologically driven metrics to capture the burden of OSA-related hypoxemia ("hypoxic burden"), autonomic response ("heart rate burden"), and sleep fragmentation ("arousal burden"). Read Less

The purpose of this study is to obtain reliable and interpretable data to inform future trials regarding our hypothesis that a novel, liquid aspirin formulation can mitigate COVID -19 associated coagulopathy (CAC) . The potential impact is to reduce COVID-19 related hospitalization within 30 days of diagnosis due to (1) pulmonary events including respiratory failure; (2) cardiac events including myocardial infarction and myocarditis (3) venous or arterial thrombotic events; (4) acute renal insufficiency or failure. Read Less

The purpose of the study is to understand how incentives (either points alone or points that can be exchanged for gift certificates) encourage engagement with an online mental health app (Neuroflow) for University students. Overall, the hope of this study is to help the investigators understand how best to support mental health and wellness in university students. Read Less

Taking a daily anti-HIV pill can protect people from HIV infection. This is called preexposure prophylaxis [PrEP]. Many cisgender women and trans individuals do not know this medication is available; others struggle to take the pill every day. It is important to understand attitudes and preferences about HIV prevention options, especially as new options become available. This study plans to evaluate preferences over time among cisgender women and trans individuals who are taking medication to prevent HIV, and among cisgender women and trans individuals who are not taking medication but are at risk of HIV. The investigators enroll up to 175 participants who visit the HIV prevention clinic, and the investigators will ask participants to complete questionnaires at regular follow up visits and between visits. This study may help the investigators understand how best to prevent HIV among people at risk. Read Less

Previous studies of the exosuit technology have culminated in strong evidence for the gait-restorative effects of soft robotic exosuits for patients post-stroke by means of substitution for lost function. The present study builds on this work by suggesting that an exosuit's immediate gait-restorative effects can be leveraged during high intensity gait training to produce long-lasting gait restoration. Current gait training efforts are focused on either quality or intensity. They focus on gait quality often by reducing the training intensity to allow patients to achieve a more normal gait. In contrast, efforts focused on training intensity push participants without focusing on the quality of their movements. These intervention paradigms generally fail to substantially impact community mobility. In this study, the investigators posit that exosuits can uniquely enable an integration of these paradigms (ie, high intensity gait training that promotes quality of movements). For this protocol, exosuits developed in collaboration with an industry partner, ReWalk™ Robotics will be used. To evaluate the effects of REAL gait training, the investigators will use clinical measures of motor and gait function, locomotor mechanics and energetics, and physiologic measures that may infer on motor learning. The spectrum of behavioral and physiologic data that we will collect will enable us to understand more comprehensively the gait-restorative effects of REAL. Read Less

The aim of this trial is to investigate the efficacy of trigger point injections with 1% lidocaine in reducing myofascial back and neck pain in the Emergency Department compared to lidocaine patches 5%. Read Less

This is a randomized, single blind, study. Males and females meeting inclusion criteria who have symptoms of mild COVID-19 and in whom a positive PCR result for SARS-CoV-2 is obtained may be enrolled to the study treatment within 72 hours of the positive PCR result. Eligible patients are those considered to be at high risk for COVID-19 disease progression. This includes patients ≥ 65 years of age or with any one or more of certain medical conditions including: cancer, COPD, cardiovascular disease, immunocompromised state resulting from solid organ transplant, obesity, sickle cell disease, history of smoking, and diabetes. Read Less

The overall goal of this protocol is to compare amyloid burden assessed by amyloid PET to plasma P-tau217 levels. Read Less

A retrospective parallel group comparison study to support expansion of the indication of the company's FDA approved Spinalogic™ device to include the cervical spine. The SpinalogicTM device was initially approved by FDA as an adjunct to one- or two-level lumbar fusion (P910066/S011). It is a non-invasive bone growth stimulator (BGS) that generates a combined magnetic field (CMF) that has been proven to accelerate bone healing and fusion in the lumbar spine. Read Less

To assess patient reported treatment satisfaction and medication tolerability in virologically suppressed HIV-1 infected adults who are at least 65 years of age who switch to a bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) fixed-dose combination regimen. Read Less