The aim is to conduct a pilot study to assess the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of culinary focused nutrition education to promote increased adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans compared to standard low-intensity care.

You will be asked to attend two fasting clinic visits. At these visits paperwork will be completed, measures of weight, height, waist circumference, and vascular health will be taken. A blood draw will also be taken. If you are randomized to the culinary focused nutrition education group, you will be asked to attend weekly 1-hour face-to-face group education sessions during the first month of the study. For months 2 and 3 face-to-face sessions will be held bi-weekly for 1 hour. You will also receive emails containing videos and other resources. If you are in the standard nutrition education group, you will receive nutrition education via written study material and a phone application (app) and you will not have to attend education visits.

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The purpose of this study is to gather information about family meals, what they look like, and how they have changed over time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will complete a confidential online survey last approximately 10-15 minutes.

This study is a comparison of disease-free survival of patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) when treated with a medication (cemiplimab) versus those treated with placebo after already having surgery and radiation therapy.

The study is conducted in 2 parts. Part 1 consists of a screening period, treatment period and a completion period including a period of long term follow up. During part 1, you will be asked to answer questions about your health, participate in a physical examination that includes vital signs,height and weight, have testing done including an electrocardiogram, blood draws, urine sampling, pregnancy test, biopsy, and medical imaging. Part 2 consists of an additional screening period, treatment period and an end of treatment period.

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This is an open-label drug study of SerpinPC (a subcutaneously administered drug) for patients with severe hemophilia A or moderately severe to severe Hemophilia B. The study consists of 3 parts after an observation phase of 12-24 weeks: 24 week justification phase, 24 week confirmatory phase & 24 week extension phase.

This is a subcutaneous drug treatment clinical trial with an observation period of up to 24 weeks, pre-dosing/dosing period of 8 visits on site or phone calls & an extension period of 6 visits.

$75.00 travel reimbursement per visit

This is a survey study that will examine how the new instruction modes during COVID-19 have impacted undergraduate education experience. Participants will be asked to complete a survey to give feedback and comments on their classes. The survey will take 15 - 20 minutes.

Aim is to explore how student's financial status and experiences influence their emotional, psychological, and social well being while being in university.

Participants, upon their consent, will be required to fill a Qualtrics survey on their personal laptop or computer.

Better understand and improving Chinese English learners' vocabulary development

•Complete seven sessions, which may take approximately 20-30 minutes of your time per session.•Read several English short texts and identify meanings of target words.•Possibly participate in a virtual interview that will be scheduled at your convenience.

We are experiencing global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) recently. Millions of people are suffering and dying every day, in spite of putting our best efforts. We are doing this survey to understand people’s reaction to this situation. The survey will ask about your knowledge, practices and worries. Your response will help us to understand how to better control these situations. Your feedback is highly important to us, as we need to find out the best way to stop the disease from spreading and killing thousands of lives, and to reduce the stress among the population.

This study is about investigating how certain elements of urbanconfiguration affects people's subjective perception of noise in urbanenvironments.This section of the study assesses participants' subjective reactions tonoise intensity when the tree density changes in various spaces.

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to test if the drug amiloride can decrease blood pressure during exercise.

This project includes 3 visits to the research lab. Each visit last approximately 3.5-4 hours (~11-12 hours altogether). In each visit, you will be asked to perform foot exercise before and after a blood pressure cuff on your leg was inflated. You will also be asked to take pills prior to visit 2 and 3. One of these pills will be a drug called amiloride (10mg), which was traditionally used to lower blood pressure. The other pill will be a placebo (no active medication).

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

The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the lived experiences of college students of color with psychiatric disabilities, particularly related to the formation of racial identity, disability identity, and the impact of perceived discrimination.

The purpose of this study is to compare the use of hormone therapy and radiation therapy (usual treatment) to the use of apalutamide and abiraterone acetate with prednisone plus the usual treatment. The addition of apalutamide and abiraterone acetate with prednisone to the usual treatment could stabilize your cancer and prevent it from spreading. But it could also cause side effects, which are described in the risks section below.This study will help the study doctors find out if this different approach is better, the same, or worse than the usual approach. To decide if it is better, the study doctors will be looking to see if the study approach increases the time without prostate cancer spreading compared to the usual approach. The study drugs, apalutamide and abiraterone acetate with prednisone, are already approved by the FDA for use in prostate cancer. But, most of the time abiraterone acetate with prednisone is not used until hormone drugs stop working and apalutamide is not used until hormone drugs stop working and after prostate cancer has spread. There will be about 586 people taking part in this study.

The purpose of this study is to compare the use of hormone therapy and radiation therapy (usual treatment) to the use of apalutamide and abiraterone acetate with prednisone plus the usual treatment. The addition of apalutamide and abiraterone acetate with prednisone to the usual treatment could stabilize your cancer and prevent it from spreading. But it could also cause side effects, which are described in the risks section below.This study will help the study doctors find out if this different approach is better, the same, or worse than the usual approach. To decide if it is better, the study doctors will be looking to see if the study approach increases the time without prostate cancer spreading compared to the usual approach.The study drugs, apalutamide and abiraterone acetate with prednisone, are already approved by the FDA for use in prostate cancer. But, most of the time abiraterone acetate with prednisone is not used until hormone drugs stop working and apalutamide is not used until hormone drugs stop working and after prostate cancer has spread. There will be about 586 people taking part in this study.

This study design is a survey that collects information about students' active level and supplement use, with an emphasis on creatine. The difference between contact and non-contact athletes will be examined, in addition to people who are considered inactive/low activity. This will help provide information of how physical activity related supplementation use affects cognition in different populations, with varying amounts of neurotrauma.

All participants will complete a digital survey that provides information about their dietary supplementation and physical activity habits. As part of the survey, participants will be allowed to indicate their interest and availability to come to a laboratory setting to complete a brief batter of neurocognitive tests.

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to test the effects of exercise on reduction in blood flow to exercising muscle.

You will be asked to participate in one visit to perform handgrip exercise and foot exercises with, and without a blood pressure cuff inflated on your arm and leg. Various physiological measurements will be recorded during this time including microneurography, blood pressure, heart rate, blood flow and muscle oxygenation.

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

Explore all stages of Hidradenitis Suppurativa with a topical medication.

There will be 7 in-person visits and 1 follow-up phone call over a 33 week period. Over the course of the study, the following study procedures will take place: medical history and medication history collection, ECG, lab tests (both blood and urine), photography, skin exams, physical exams, questionnaires, and skin biopsies.

Up to $350

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) leads to respiratory failure due to chronic hypoventilation. The gold standard for measuring hypoventilationrequires an arterial blood gas, which is impractical in the outpatient setting due to invasiveness, pain, and need for specialized equipment. Recently, the Penn State Health Hershey ALS Clinic has implemented transcutaneous CO2 (TCO2) monitoring as standard of care clinical assessment. The overall goals of this study are to gather critical preliminary data for stakeholder-driven refinement of a TCO2 monitoring protocol within a busy ALS clinic and identify how TCO2 may enhance our understanding of standard respiratory measurements.

Participants will complete a survey related to their experience having their CO2 reading performed in the ALS Clinic.

$20 will be paid for every survey completed, for a maximum possible payment of $80 per person.

The goal of this study is to learn how young children think and tell stories about challenges between parents and children. Children will play games and tell stories using toys while caregivers fill out surveys and talk to researchers. This will occur twice, about 6 months apart. Qualities of children's stories, their language and regulation skills, demographic information about children and caregivers, and parenting behaviors will be examined.

This multi-site consortium research study, entitled the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, willprospectively examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development beginning prenatallythrough age 10 years. The study will determine the short- and long-term impacts of a variety of potentially harmfulas well as protective environmental factors. These include prenatal substance use, mental health, stress,sociodemographics, biological and genetic factors, and parent/child interaction. The overall goal of this study is tounderstand the neurodevelopmental trajectories of children growing up in diverse environments. A sample of~7,500 pregnant women will be recruited from 25 sites across the U.S. and they and their liveborn children will befollowed for 10 years.

If you agree for you and your child to participate, we will ask you to take part in completing visits from pregnancy through the first 10 years of your child’s life. These visits will take place both in-person and remotely. The length of visits will vary and may last between approximately one to nine hours per visit (which can be broken up into multiple visits). Over the first four years of the study, all study visits will require about 33-37 hours total. This will include interviews, questionnaires and other tests about yourself and your child. We will ask you and your child to wear small devices for a few days to measure heart rate and or movement. We will ask you and your child to provide some biological samples. Because this study is looking at how a child’s brain develops in the first years of life, we will ask that you allow your child to have brain scans and other measures of how your child’s brain is developing. This study is being offered in both State College, PA at the University Park campus and in Hershey, PA at the College of Medicine campus. You may choose to complete this study at either site.

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We are conducting an online survey study for parents of children with disabilities that explores their perceptions of participation in disability sport within their communities.

This is a study that will examine how engineers make decisions under certain conditions and the factors that drive these decisions. The game will be used to simulate different engineering scenarios. All you need to do is play an online game with 3 different scenarios and choose what you feel is the better design based on the available information.

The main purpose of this research study is to provide access to the investigational product, CNM-Au8 at a dose of 30mg per day, to up to 300 people living with ALS. The study wants to find out if CNM-Au8 is safe to take without causing too many side effects and can help people with ALS.

Participants will have a visit to see if they qualify to participate. Following this visit, they will return to the clinic for visits every 12 weeks and these visits will continue in 48-week periods until the treatment plan is discontinued. Participants will have one last visit 4 weeks after their last dose of the investigational medicine. 

The primary objective of this study is to increase our understanding of the ways in which perceived discrimination, coping strategies, competence, stress, social support, and self-efficacy in counselor education programs relate to overall well-being for advanced counseling students of color.

this is a phase II study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of 2 doses of elafibranor in participants with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), and its potential effect on the change in serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and other hepatic markers of PSC during 12 weeks of treatment in the double-blind period (DBP) compared to placebo. This will be followed by a 96-week open-label extension (OLE) period (no placebo) to assess long-term safety and maintenance of effects of elafibranor.After the first dose of the study intervention on Day 1, the participants will have study visits every 4 weeks through Week 12 of the DBP to assess efficacy and safety. In the OLE period, the study visits for each participant will occur after 4 weeks of entering the OLE, then every 12 weeks up to Week 52, followed by every 22 weeks up to Week 96 which will be the end of treatment (EOT). All participants will have a safety follow-up 4 weeks after the last dose of study intervention.

There will be 2 screening visits followed by 4 visits during the double blind/placebo part of the trial, followed by visits every 3 months for the open label part of the study. All visits will be in person. Blood will be drawn at every visit. Urine will be collected at most visits. ECG's (recording of your heart activity) will be done on a regular basis. Additional procedures include fibroscans (scan of your liver to determine liver stiffness) and ultrasound exams of your abdomen and bladder. Multiple questionnaires will be competed throughout the trial period.

This Phase 1 and 2 study is to determine the safety of APL-101 in subjects with NSCLC with specific mutations. It is also to determine the dose that is tolerable for oral administration of APL-101. And to see if there is a clinical benefit to subjects for the amount of time to progression, or progression free survival and overall survival.

We are asking you to give permission for your doctor to send your stored tumor tissue sample for cancer genetic analysis. As part of your cancer care, your doctor may have already collected a tumor tissue biopsy sample (of your cancer tissue) in the past, recently, or being planned as part of standard medical care. Your doctor will ask for any of your stored or available tumor tissue sample collected elsewhere from previous doctors you may have seen in the past. We will not ask you to undergo a new tissue biopsy procedure for this testing however your treating physician may decide to do so as part of your standard of care.There is no required visit for this testing. Once you have signed this consent, your available tumor tissue sample from a prior biopsy or surgery along with the pathology report will be sent to an accredited and certified external genetic laboratory (such as Caris Life Sciences or Interpace Pharma Solutions) to test and understand your cancer’s genetic make-up. The use of your tumor tissue samples as described in this form is necessary for the genetic testing. Without your consent to test your samples, the genetic testing cannot be performed. Once you agree to provide your samples, they cannot be returned to your doctor’s clinic. If the genetic testing of your samples show you have c-MET genetic dysregulations in your cancer, your doctor will discuss your treatment options including clinical trials, such as the APL-101-01 SPARTA trial, with you. If you are interested in participating, you will be asked to review and sign another participant information and informed consent form for the clinical trial before undergoing further screening tests to confirm if you are eligible to participate. The genetic results could also be used to help your clinic doctor decide on an approved therapy, or other investigational therapies that may be right for your specific cancer genetic alterations.

This trial is comparing two different therapies for the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are not having a bone marrow transplant.

Subjects will be required to keep all research visits, take medications as directed, report any new medication of side effects to the study team,

Tobacco users will be randomized to use electronic cigarettes containing varying levels of nicotine and flavor during laboratory protocols to investigate the effects on the brain and behavior. Subjects will complete surveys, functional magnetic resonance imaging scans, and complete computerized tasks. Eligible participants include daily users of inhaled tobacco products who are at least 21 years old, able to read and write in English, and not planning to quit tobacco use within the next month. Exclusion criteria include: current substance use impairing participation, unstable or significant medical conditions, current use of smoking cessation medication, uncontrolled serious mental illness, and MRI safety or neurological contraindications.

Subjects will taste test a variety of e-cigarette flavorings, answer questions and complete a single MRI.

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The purpose of this Phase III study is to compare Overall Survival (OS) and Recurrence Free Survival (RFS) across the two arms: MK3475 (Pembrolizumab) to Standard of Care Observation. Patients will undergo standard clinical procedures including physical, labs, vitals, ecg's, and imaging.

We are asking you to take part in a research study. We do research studies to try to answer questions about how to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases like cancer.

We will interview prescribers and rehabilitation professionals who have provided services and treatment to immigrants in PA with a history of opioid abuse. The goal is to highlight best practices, resources needed, cultural awareness, and training needs to support the rehabilitation and recovery of this client group.

One 45-minute, recorded interview via Zoom

$50.00 Amazon gift card

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether fermenting pulse foods (e.g. beans, chickpeas, lentils, peas, etc.) changes their effects on the gut microbiome and inflammation. Participants will eat provided meals of either fermented or unfermented pulses, providing blood and fecal samples at the beginning of the study and after two weeks of eating meals containing each of the pulse types.

The study lasts 8 weeks. 2 weeks where you do not consume any of the test food (pulses such as chickpeas, lentils, peas or beans), 2 weeks of consuming the first type of the provided meals, 2 weeks without consuming any of the test foods, 2 weeks consuming the second type of provided meals. There will be five in person visits, one at the beginning to provide consent and then one at the end of each 2 week section. At three of these visits a fecal sample will be collected, blood will be drawn and a dietary survey completed.

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This is a phase 2b clinical trial looking to see if the drug PLN-74809 (bexotegrast) is effective and safe in patients diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

If you choose to participate in this study and meet all the study entry requirements, you will be randomly assigned (by chance; like the flip of a coin) to receive either bexotegrast or placebo for the whole study. Neither your study doctor nor you will know whether you are receiving bexotegrast or placebo. You will be required to visit the Hershey Medical Center on at least 8 separate occasions over an approximate 58-week period. Procedures that will be performed during your visits include, but are not limited to, physical exams, blood tests, ECGs, completing questionnaires, lung functions tests, and CT scans.

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