Clinical trials: Preventive Measures
Tuberculosis, HIV Infections
Study of Limited Versus Continuous Isoniazid Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy in HIV-infected Persons in Botswana
This is a randomized, blinded, two-arm comparative trial of continued versus limited isoniazid (INH) tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy in HIV-infected adults in Gaborone and Francistown, Botswana.
- Trial name
- NCT00164281
- Testing
- Isoniazid
- Where
- Botswana
- Volunteers
- 1,995 people
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Migraine
Efficacy and Safety Study of Rimegepant in Episodic Migraine Prevention With Multiple Dosing Regimens
The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of daily and every other day dosing of rimegepant to placebo as a preventive treatment for episodic migraine.
- Trial name
- NCT05217927
- Testing
- Rimegepant 75mg daily dosing, Rimegepant 75mg every other day dosing
- Where
- 107 sites in United States, Austria and 8 more
- Volunteers
- 1,415 people
- Sponsor
- Pfizer
Venous Thromboembolism, Traumatic Brain Injury
Delayed Versus Early Enoxaparin Prophylaxis After Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Brain injured patients are at high risk for forming blood clots in the legs and lungs. For non-brain injured trauma patients, we decrease the chances of these blood clots forming by placing the patients on a low dose of the blood…
- Trial name
- DEEP (NCT01014403)
- Testing
- enoxaparin
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Mobile-health (mHealth) Intervention to Support HIV Self-testing and PrEP Uptake Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men
The proposed study will involve adolescent (17-24 years old) men who have sex with men (described as YMSM hereafter) who meet eligibility criteria to participate.
- Trial name
- NCT04865341
- Testing
- IMB, Information-Only Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 118 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Leukemia, Fungal Infection
Pharmacokinetics of Posaconazole Prophylaxis in Acute Leukemia
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn the amount of posaconazole that is in the body at different time points when given to patients with leukemia. The safety of this drug will also be studied.
- Trial name
- NCT00936117
- Testing
- Posaconazole
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Leukemia, Lymphoma
Bortezomib-based GVHD Prophylaxis After Allogeneic Transplant for Patients Without Matched Related Donors
A common problem after stem cell transplant is graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD). GVHD is a complication of transplantation where the donor graft attacks and damages some of your tissues.
- Conditions
- Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myelodysplastic Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT01323920
- Testing
- Bortezomib, Tacrolimus, Methotrexate
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
HIV Seroconversion, Stimulant Abuse
Biobehavioral Interventions for HIV-negative, Stimulant Using Men Who Have Sex With Men
This study seeks to evaluate the efficacy of a contingency management (CM) intervention compared to a yoked control condition for eliminating illicit stimulant use and for decreasing time to initiating post exposure prophylaxis…
- Trial name
- NCT01140880
- Testing
- Truvada
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 170 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Friends Research Institute, Inc.
HIV Infections
Evaluating the Pharmacokinetics, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Safety of Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention During Pregnancy and Postpartum
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics, feasibility, acceptability, and safety of a fixed-dose combination of emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF) as oral daily pre-exposure…
- Trial name
- NCT03386578
- Testing
- Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (FTC/TDF), Behavioral HIV risk reduction package, Enhanced adherence support
- Where
- 7 sites in Malawi, South Africa and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 780 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Leprosy
Bedaquiline Enhanced Post ExpOsure Prophylaxis for Leprosy (Phase 2)
This study will evaluate a combination of bedaquiline and rifampicin as post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for leprosy in Comoros. It will be a follow-up to the PEOPLE trial on PEP with rifampicin, which is ending in 2022.
- Trial name
- BE-PEOPLE P2 (NCT05406479)
- Testing
- BE-PEP (Bedaquiline), SDR-PEP, BE-PEP (Rifampicine)
- Where
- Comoros
- Volunteers
- 313 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Pertussis
Vanderbilt Pertussis Exposure Study: PEP in Vaccinated Healthcare Workers Following Pertussis Exposure
The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of two strategies of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in healthcare workers (HCWs) who have been vaccinated with acellular pertussis vaccine and have been exposed to…
- Trial name
- VPES (NCT00469274)
- Testing
- Antibiotic PEP
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,102 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Infection Control, Preventive Measures
Effectiveness of a Online Training Program With a Clinical Procedure Standardized in Units of Nursing (CPSUN)
This study evaluates if the implementation of an online platform with procedures and protocols, improve the knowledge of professionals and can have a health impact related to decreased contamination of blood cultures.
- Trial name
- CPSUN (NCT02965989)
- Testing
- Online training of a nursing technique
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ignacio Zaragoza García
Dental Caries
Radiographic Progression of Infiltrated Caries Lesions In-vivo
This study is investigating the efficacy of caries lesion infiltration therapy as compared to the current preventative approach for early caries lesions.
- Trial name
- ICON (NCT01496456)
- Testing
- Resin infiltration, Caries management
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Hepatitis B Chronic Infection, Pregnancy
Maternal Antiviral Prophylaxis to Prevent Perinatal Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus in Thailand
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection is complicated by cirrhosis and liver cancer. In Thailand, 7% of adults are chronically infected by Hepatitis B virus (HBV).
- Trial name
- iTAP (NCT01745822)
- Testing
- tenofovir disoproxil fumarate
- Where
- 17 sites in Thailand
- Volunteers
- 654 people
- Sponsor
- Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
HIV Infection
Renal, Endocrine, and Bone Changes in Response to FTC/TDF in Uninfected Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (YMSM).
This is a prospective observational cohort sub-study of subjects enrolled in the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) 110 (NCT01772823) or ATN 113 (NCT01769456), which is a prospective…
- Trial name
- NCT01769469
- Testing
- FTC/TDF (Truvada®)
- Where
- 12 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
VTE Prophylaxis With Anticoagulation After Total Knee Replacement Surgery
A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous JNJ-64179375 Versus Oral Apixaban in Participants Undergoing Elective Total Knee Replacement Surgery
The primary purpose of Part 1 in this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of JNJ-64179375 for each dose level for dose escalation and any bleeding events (the composite of major, clinically relevant non-major, and…
- Trial name
- TEXT-TKR (NCT03251482)
- Testing
- JNJ-64179375 0.3 mg/kg, JNJ-64179375 0.6 mg/kg, JNJ-64179375 1.2 mg/kg
- Where
- 103 sites in United States, Argentina and 14 more
- Volunteers
- 308 people
- Sponsor
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC
Fungal Infection, Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm
Caspofungin Acetate, Fluconazole, or Voriconazole in Preventing Fungal Infections in Patients Following Donor Stem Cell Transplant
This randomized phase III trial studies how well caspofungin acetate works compared to fluconazole or voriconazole in preventing fungal infections in patients following donor stem cell transplant.
- Trial name
- NCT01503515
- Testing
- Caspofungin Acetate, Fluconazole, Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
- Where
- 49 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 292 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Oncology Group
Dental Plaque, Dental Prophylaxis
Effectiveness of Customized Handle Toothbrush
People with special needs suffer from many difficulties, including mental, physical or motor, which increase the difficulty of obtaining good oral health.
- Conditions
- Dental Plaque, Dental Prophylaxis, Dental Care
- Trial name
- NCT04845633
- Testing
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Conventional Toothbrush in Dental Plaque Control in Healthy Children, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Customized Handle Toothbrush in Dental Plaque Control in Healthy Children, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Conventional Toothbrush in Dental Plaque Control in Children with Down Syndrome
- Where
- Syria
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- Damascus University
Haemophilia A
Efficacy and Safety of Turoctocog Alfa Pegol (N8-GP) for Prophylaxis and Treatment of Bleeding Episodes in Previously Treated Chinese Patients With Haemophilia A (pathfinder10)
The study investigates how well the medicine called turoctocog alfa pegol (N8-GP) works in previously treated Chinese patients with severe haemophilia A. Participants will be treated with N8-GP.
- Trial name
- Pathfinder10 (NCT05082116)
- Testing
- turoctocog alfa pegol (N8-GP)
- Where
- 11 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Novo Nordisk A/S
HIV Prevention
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Transgender Women in the US and South America
A study to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of a multi-component strategy to improve pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and adherence that integrates delivery of biomedical HIV prevention…
- Trial name
- NCT04742491
- Testing
- Immediate Intervention Arm, Deferred Intervention Arm
- Where
- 5 sites in United States, Brazil
- Volunteers
- 304 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- HIV Prevention Trials Network
Hematologic Diseases, Acute-graft-versus-host Disease
Sirolimus & Mycophenolate Mofetil as GvHD Prophylaxis in Myeloablative, Matched Related Donor HCT
A continuation study of sirolimus and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for graft-vs-host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis for patients undergoing matched related allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for acute and…
- Conditions
- Hematologic Diseases, Acute-graft-versus-host Disease, Leukemia, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)
- Trial name
- NCT01220297
- Testing
- Sirolimus, Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), Carmustine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University