This is a study that will compare a study drug pembrolizumab plus a study drug lenvatinib in combination with the therapy called TACE (transarterial chemoembolization) which is a way to deliver chemotherapy locally through a procedure called embolization and how that works versus placebo (or no study medications) plus TACE and how it could lead to progression-free survival (PFS).

This is a study that will compare a study drug pembrolizumab plus a study drug lenvatinib in combination with the therapy called TACE (transarterial chemoembolization) which is a way to deliver chemotherapy locally through a procedure called embolization and how that works versus placebo (or no study medications) plus TACE and how it could lead to progression-free survival (PFS).

The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of amiloride on the blood pressure response to walking in PAD patients and healthy controls.

In each visit, you will be asked to walk on a treadmill. You will also be asked to take capsules prior to visit 2 and 3. The capsules for one visit will be a drug called amiloride (10mg, in 2 capsules with 5mg of amiloride in each capsule), which was traditionally used to lower blood pressure. The other capsules will be a placebo (no active medication). A blood sample will be drawn at each visit.

You will receive $25 per hour for your participation in this research study

The proposed overall research aims to establish feasibility of delivering an individually-tailored, behavioral intervention to manage gestational weight gain [GWG] that adapts to the unique needs and challenges of overweight/obese pregnant women [OW/OB-PW] and will utilize control systems engineering to optimize this intervention; in other words, make this intervention manage GWG in OW/OB-PW as effectively and efficiently as possible.

You will be randomized into an intervention or attention control group from ~8 weeks gestation to ~37 weeks gestation with a BMI of 24-45 (>40 with physician consent).You will have 1 pre-intervention session that explains the study procedures and to get you ready for the study. Here you will also complete various measures of demographics, behavioral surveys, etc.Over the course of the study, you will weigh yourself each day, wear an activity monitor and complete various surveys. If you are randomized to the intervention group, you may have healthy eating demonstrations and/or physical activity sessions each week.You will have 1 post-intervention session where you will return your devices, complete a 30-60 minute interview and complete the last of the surveys.

$250

The purpose of this study is to survey hearing aid users over a 6 month time period to see if their music perception improves over time.

Study participants will complete surveys about their music experience four times: first at your initial clinic visit and then sent to your email at 1, 3, and 6 months following your visit. This survey will include questions about the participants experience with music as well as name, age, gender, and duration of hearing aid use.

The study will compare participants with primary central nervous system lymphoma which responded to initial treatment and are thereafter treated with Obinutuzumab (the study drug), with participants with primary central nervous system lymphoma which responded to initial treatment and are not treated with the study drug.

In addition to your routine care, you will be “randomized” into one of the study groups described below. You will have a MRI of your brain approximately every three months (plus or minus two weeks) for two years. You will undergo a neurocognitive assessment and complete a quality-of-life questionnaire two years after study entry.Group A – Obinutuzumab ArmIf you are in the first group ("Group A") you will be given the study drug every two months for two years. Every two months you will have your vital signs taken, your blood drawn (one to two tablespoons), and you will be given the study drug through an IV infusion into your vein. Group B – No Obinutuzumab ArmIf you are in the second group ("Group B") every six months you will have your vital signs taken and your blood drawn (one tablespoon).

In this study, we are interested in learning about how male athletes think about and understand the experience and expression of emotion in competitive sports.

This research is being done to help us better understand the risk factors and protective factors for cognitive decline in people who are at increased risk for dementia. The goal of the study is to establish a data and biorepository for people at increased risk for dementia.

Eligible patients for the study, in addition to routine clinic visits, may undergo a series of questionnaires and blood testing.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. The loss of estrogen from menopause puts women at a greater risk of developing heart disease. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of drinking beetroot juice on measures of blood vessel health and blood pressure. Participants will drink beetroot juice and placebo juice each for one week followed by blood pressure measurements and ultrasound imaging of an artery in the upper arm. A sub-aim of this study is to investigate the effects of estrogen status on blood vessel function between pre- and post-menopausal women.

There are a total of 6 in-person visits to the Clinical Research Center. You will be asked to drink beetroot juice (2 oz) every day for 7 days. Participants will undergo vascular assessments, blood pressure measurements, and blood draws (11 in total for 6 visits).

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To compare time to ctDNA (+ve) status in ctDNA (-ve) cohort following resection of stage III colon cancer treated with immediate vs delayed (based on serial ctDNA surveillance) chemotherapy. Time to positive event is defined as time from randomization to the first ctDNA positive result for the immediate arm (Arm 1) and to the 2nd ctDNA positive result for the delayed arm (Arm 2) to allow for the potential effect of delayed adjuvant chemotherapy. Patients recurred without a positive ctDNA result will be considered to have ctDNA positive status at the time of recurrence for both study arms.

We are asking you to take part in this research study because you have colon cancer that has been treated with surgery but has spread to some of your lymph nodes and is known as stage III colon cancer. Or, you have stage II or stage III colon cancer with a higher risk of cancer returning, your colon cancer has been treated with surgery, and you had ctDNA testing done and are ctDNA positive. Stage II colon cancer is an early stage colon cancer that has been treated with surgery but has not spread to your lymph nodes. ctDNA, or circulating tumor DNA, is DNA that has been released from tumor cells into your bloodstream. This DNA can be measured using a blood test.

People with narrowed blood vessels in their legs can only walk a short distance before needing to sit down due to pain in their calf muscles. Most of these patients do not follow their heart doctor's advice to walk at home because it hurts. A therapy that does not involve painful walking would be ideal for these patients to begin to treat their disease so they can eventually walk with less discomfort. We will ask patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) to place both feet into inflatable ankle splints 30 minutes a day for 4 weeks to passively stretch their calf muscles. Before and after this 4-week program, we will measure the health and size of their leg blood vessels, the length, and function of their calf muscles and tendons, and how long they can walk without pain. We will also closely track their joint and foot movements and calf muscle oxygen levels while they walk down a hallway. People with and without risk factors for heart disease are also eligible for this study to compare differences in vascular and muscular health to patients with PAD. Volunteers without a PAD diagnosis or poor leg circulation will not undergo the 4-week stretch and no-stretch interventions.

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) and poor leg circulation patients:-4 visits to University Park Clinical Research Center ~3 hours per visit-1 blood draw-Wear a calf muscle stretching device for 30-min a day, 5 days a week, for 4 weeks and 4 weeks of no stretching-Several muscle and vascular ultrasound measurements-Walking performance tests on and off the treadmill-Wear a smartwatch to monitor physical activity during each 4-week stretch or no stretch interventionParticipants with and without risk factors for heart disease:-2 visits to University Park Clinical Research Center within the same week lasting ~3 hours per visit-Not diagnosed with PAD or poor leg circulation-1 blood draw-Several muscle and vascular ultrasound measurements-Walking performance tests on and off the treadmill

PAD participants can receive up to $450 in compensation. Participants with and without heart disease risk factors (non-PAD participants) will receive $50 for their participation.

The goal of this study is to understand how babies and their mothers learn to respond to stress during the early years of the baby's life. Participating women complete questionnaires and do a mildly stressful task alone (during pregnancy) or with their babies (at four different times over the first two years of the baby's life) and collect saliva samples that tell us about stress responses, either at home or at one of our lab sites. We aim to use what we learn to better support expecting parents who may be at risk for stress-related health problems and improve their children's resilience to stress throughout life.

Women are asked to participate in six sessions over Zoom and/or at the PACT Center between their 28th week of pregnancy and when their child is 2 years old. During these sessions, which last up to 2 hours each, mothers and babies will1.participate in mildly stressful tasks (like having the mother leave the room for up to 3 minutes and then return) and games to assess the baby’s emotional and cognitive development2.provide saliva samples by drooling into a tube (for the mother) or holding a cotton swab in their baby’s mouth to get it wet3.fill out questionnaires about themselves and their baby4.take part in clinical interviews that ask about mood and other markers of psychological ill-being

$220

Adolescence is a critical period during which many important healthhttps://irb.psu.edu/IRB/sd/ResourceAdministration/Project/ProjectEditor?Project=com.webridge.entity.Entity[OID[058ACDEB3E43384D816C7E390C2B83F6]]&Mode=smartform&WizardPageOID=com.webridge.entity.Entity[OID[E4552FC57E491543A6B7FD8268E23FD7]] habits form in humans. However, animal models provide mixed information about habit formation across development and there are relatively few human studies that address differences between habit formation in adolescents and adults. To address this gap, the proposed study will assess differences in habit formation in adolescents and adults as measured by the "Slips of Action" task, which seeks to discriminate between habitual and goal-directed learning of visual stimuli pairings.

There will be one in-person visit lasting about one hour. Visits will begin with informed consent. Participants will complete a computer task where they are asked to learn associations between pictures and then will be tested on the associated pairings. They will also complete questionnaires and cognitive tasks.

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This study aims to examine the effect of pedaling a compact elliptical device at the desk on employees' work productivity. This study also aims to evaluate the effect of different types of incentives on promoting desk-based pedaling.

Menthol is the active ingredient in topical analgesics. Some manufacturers use special encapsulation techniques in order to prolong the effects of menthol. Our goal is to use intradermal microdialysis to assess how much menthol, along with other organic bioactives, are present in the skin following topical application of various commercially available topical analgesics. We also examine the affect of a menthol-based analgesic gel on the skin blood flow.

There will be a screening visit and then up to seven experiment visits where different topical analgesics will be applied to the forearm skin. We will use intradermal microdialysis and measure skin blood flow.

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To compare overall survival (OS) in patients with inoperable, early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) randomized to stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) with or without atezolizumab.

Patients will need to keep all of their radiation treatment appointments and keep all appointments with the study doctor. Patients will be expected to complete questionnaires and have extra blood samples taken at specific time point throughout the study.

This is a multi-site, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to determine if the study drug, semaglutide, will reduce illicit opioid use and craving in opioid-dependent patients receiving treatment for opioid use disorder. The study drug, semaglutide, is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus, but it is not specifically approved for the treatment of cravings and opioid use in patients with substance use disorders. Therefore, its use in this research should be considered “investigational.”

A screening visit will take place to see if you eligible to receive the research treatment, which will include urine (for drugs and pregnancy) and blood tests as well as questionnaires about your mental health and drug use. If you are eligible to continue in the research, we will randomize you to either the study medication or the placebo, which you will receive once a week for 12 weeks. During the 12 weeks of treatment, we collect your vital signs, perform a physical examination (first visit only), collect your medical history (first visit only), do a urine drug screen and pregnancy test, give you questionnaires about your mental health and drug use, and ask you about the other medications you are taking. We will then administer the study medication or placebo, depending on what group you were randomized to. You will also complete surveys at set times on your smartphone. After your last treatment visit, you will return to the site two more times for study visits without any study medication or placebo administration. A blood draw will also occur at the washout visit. The smartphone surveys will continue at set times until your final study visit. You will attend a total of 15 study visits over 19 weeks.

Maximum of $873.00

We are investigating how the starch from pulse crops (chickpeas, lentils and dry peas) affects the gut microbiome, particularly with regards to the production of butyrate, a microbial metabolite with a number of known health benefits. We are recruiting people from two groups, those that consume a lot of these pulses and those who rarely consume them. These participants will then track their food intake for 48 hours before collecting a fecal sample which they will return to the lab. We will then use these fecal samples to conduct laboratory fermentations with pulse starches processed in a number of different ways to see what factors are important for determining the amount of butyrate that is produced. This will serve as pilot data for designing future human clinical trials.

We wish to investigate the role of a specific gene in visceral pain sensation and perception. This gene, Nav1.8 has a known change present in 10% of the population which may affect the way we feel inflammatory pain in the gut. This is an important symptom in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Some patients feel high levels of pain we would like to control, other patients feel little to no pain in the presence of very active disease, which can lead to dangerously under-treated disease. In this study, we will use healthy volunteers as well as IBD patients, and test their sensitivity using rectal balloon dilation.Research subjects will be asked to fast, skipping solid foods and opaque liquids for 6 hours before the testing. Usually this means skipping 1 meal. At the beginning of the study visit. they will use an over the counter enema to clear their rectum of any stool. Healthy control subjects that have never had a colonoscopy before and all IBD patients will undergo a very brief proctoscopy to either verify rectal health or check for any IBD disease activity. Healthy controls that have had a prior colonoscopy within the last 5 years will skip that prior step. Then a trained physician on the research team will insert a thin, lubricated tube into the rectum, which will be inflated to specific pressures. Most of these tests will be designed to measure any change in sensation, then the need to use the toilet, followed by urgent need or discomfort, and lastly the lower threshold of pain. Test subjects will be able to stop testing at any time, should they become too uncomfortable. The testing takes between 1 and 1 and a half hours, and volunteers are compensated $200 for their time.

To simulate abdominal pain, we use a thin tube placed in the rectum that inflates a small balloon to very precise and safe pressures. Our bodies interpret these pressures (in ascending order) as the need to go to the bathroom; first just a little, then with increasing urgency and eventually discomfort and pain. During these experiments, we only measure the lower threshold of pain, and stop immediately when you tell us to stop. We have significant experience using this approach and we have found it consistently informative while causing the least amount of discomfort possible. The whole thing takes about an hour and we’re paying volunteers $200 for participating. We'll ask that you skip a meal before the study visit, and perform an over-the-counter enema at the start of the visit.

$200

A study of the safety and feasibility of using molecularly guided therapy in combination with standard therapy followed by maintenance therapy with DFMO in patients with newly diagnosed high risk neuroblastoma.

Participating in this study requires that you visit the study hospital Penn State Hershey Medical Center multiple times over the course of the full study for evaluations (physical exam, blood draw, urine analysis, etc.) and scans (MRI/CT, MIBG). Weekly visits may occur at your home institution with your home treating oncologist. As a subject in this clinical trial you are expected to receive treatment on this phase of the study for a total of about 2 ½ years if you complete all portions. After treatment, you will have follow-up examinations and medical tests.

To compare the breast cancer recurrence-free interval (BCRFI) between patients that received regional RT or not, defined as time from randomization to time of invasive recurrent disease in the ipsilateral chestwall, breast, regional nodes, distant sites or death due to BC.

Women with low risk breast cancer will be randomized to either regional radiation therapy or no regional breast radiation therapy. Patients will be expected to keep all of their radiation appointment and complete all questionnaires.

This study is to determine the recommended Phase 3 dose of venetoclax in combination with azacitidine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients when given as maintenance therapy following allogeneic stem cell transplantation. It also is to determine if venetoclax can be effective in combination with azacitidine to improve Relapse Free Survival in Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients compared to Best Supportive Care (BSC) when given as maintenance therapy following allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

There are different phases of this study. The first phase is Screening, then there is the Treatment phase as well as a Follow up phase. Each phase will have testing and procedures that will require you to come to the study center.

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This will be a 12-week single blinded, randomized, nutrition clinical trial for children with new diagnosis of stage 3 type 1 diabetes (clinical diagnosis of T1D). Beta cell function will be measured after 3 and 6 months.

Study participants in the intervention group will be required to follow the intake of specific foods and adhere to specific nutrition guidelines in addition to follow with a registered dietitian for 12 weeks (4 in person visits and 3 virtual visits). All these visits will be compensated. All study visits will be seen for a screening visit, an enrollment visit, 12-week visit and a 24-week visit. During the study visits, participants will undergo the following: physical exam/ demographic/social evaluation, clinical nutrition evaluation, nutrition counseling, dietary intake assessment, blood test collection, 2-hour Mixed Meal Tolerance Test (MMTT) and anthropometry.

$345

We are asking you to take part in this voluntary research study because you have lung cancer that will require surgery, chemotherapy, and possibly immunotherapy. The study involves chemotherapy and immunotherapy given during the 6 weeks prior to surgery.

In person visits for Screening, Treatment and Follow-up visits. Treatment is given monthly on day 1,22 & 43. Special test will be conducted at these time periods such as Physical Exam, Blood Draws and CT/Pet scans.

This study is being done to answer the following question:Is treatment with hormonal therapy as good as the usual treatment of radiation and hormonal therapy in women with low-risk breast cancer who have had lumpectomy? We are doing this study because we want to find out if this approach is better or worse than the usual approach for your breast cancer. The usual approach is defined as care most people get for low-risk, early stage breast cancer that is sensitive to hormones.

Pt will either have radiation therapy to the breast and take a hormonal drug for at least five years or you will only take a hormonal drug for at least five years.

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a device that has the potential to restore communication by direct translation of brain signals. The BCI used in this study, the P300 Speller, relies on the generation of a P300 evoked potential when a user is presented a rare and unpredictable target stimulus amidst a larger pool of non-target stimuli. This evoked potential is used to perform selections on the computer. Those with advanced ALS demonstrate decreased capacity for BCI control using the P300 speller. With this study, we aim to use a combination of eye tracking and sensory testing to quantify sensory and cognitive processes necessary for the generation of a P300 response. We will test the performance of a multisensory P300 spelling task, where brain potentials are evoked using a combination of visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli. The goal is to demonstrate the perceptual benefits of multisensory integration and generate evidence for its use in this patient group.

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a device that has the potential to restore communication by direct translation of brain signals. The BCI used in this study, the P300 Speller, relies on the generation of a P300 evoked potential when a user is presented a rare and unpredictable target stimulus amidst a larger pool of non-target stimuli. This evoked potential is used to perform selections on the computer.With this study, we aim to use a combination of eye tracking and sensory testing to quantify sensory and cognitive processes necessary for the generation of a P300 response. We will test the performance of a multisensory P300 spelling task, where brain potentials are evoked using a combination of visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli.

$40

Researchers in this trial will be using a combination of two drugs to determine if the combination will help in treating cancer by shrinking tumors and controlling cancer growth.

You will need to come to the clinic for at least six visits while you are taking the study medication. Those visits will include see the study doctor, having blood drawn, and giving you the study drug. When you are no longer taking the study drug you will be seen about 2 months after that followed by phone follow ups between 6 and 8 months after stopping the study drug and then every year for 2 years. Those yearly visits can also be done by looking at you medical record.

The purpose of this study is to understand the neural and behavioral mechanisms subserving social and non-social risky decision making.

There will be two in-person lab visits. In the first (half hour) lab visit, you will play a decision-making game while having a mock scan. In the second (two hour) lab visit, you will play a decision-making game while having an fMRI scan.

$38.00

The purpose of this research is the understand the feasibility of using radar to identify older adults at high-risk for falls. We will enroll two groups of participants 65 and older: one group who self-report at least one fall in the past year and a control group that has no reported falls. Participants will move in front of the radar tool while we measure their movements. We will use machine learning algorithms to determine if there are differences in the movement patterns of those who have fallen versus those who have not. We hope that using the radar tool will be an effective method of identifying older adults at high risk for falls, thus enabling fall risk prevention interventions.

Participants 65 and older will come to one, 30-minute in-person visit at the Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA and will perform a variety of movements that mimic activities of daily living. You will be asked to stand still, to get up and down from a chair, and to walk a short distance. You will be asked to repeat each of these movements several times while study team measures these movements with a radar device and a video camera.

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how people's perceptions of the power in their romantic relationships shape the messages they use to seek support from their romantic partners.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the nicotine delivery, toxicant exposure, and subjective effects associated with the use of heat-not burn tobacco products, compared with electronic cigarettes.

Participants will attend 2 clinic visits at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center lasting approximately 1 ½ hours each. Participants will be asked to refrain from using any tobacco or nicotine products for at least 14 hours prior to each visit. During the visit participants will try the new tobacco products in the study center while blood samples are collected through an IV catheter placed in the arm.

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