To assess the efficacy and safety of early administration of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in reducing mortality and morbidity for vitamin D deficient patients at high risk for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and mortality.

Non-inferiority study of GSK3511294 compared with mepolizumab or benralizumab in participants with severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype.

You will receive either study drug or placebo, undergo research-related tests and procedures, and questionnaires. You will need to visit the study center up to 18 times over a period of 15 months. You will have different tests and procedures throughout the study. The aim is to check on your health andsymptoms, check on your response to treatment and any side effects, and assess the study drug.This study will compare the study drug with either mepolizumab or benralizumab, known as the comparator medications. The effects of the drugs, both good and bad, will be compared. Study participants will be divided into 2 groups to receive:Study drug (once every 26 weeks) + placebo (once every 4 or 8 weeks) OR,Mepolizumab (once every 4 weeks) or benralizumab (once every 8 weeks) + placebo (once every 26 weeks).All participants will receive an active treatment. You will be assigned to receive either the study drug or comparator (mepolizumab or benralizumab) you were taking before the study. No participant previouslytaking mepolizumab will be assigned to benralizumab, and no participant previously taking benralizumab will be assigned to mepolizumab.

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A phase 3 clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness and safety of a study drug in subjects in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

You will be required to attend 8 in-person visits at the Hershey Medical Center over the span of approximately one year. During the study you will have physical examinations, complete questionnaires, review your medical history and current medications, have vital signs and ECGs taken, have blood tests performed, complete pulmonary function testing, and potentially have a high resolution CT scan done. You will take the inhaled treprostinil or placebo daily at home throughout the study.

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.

The purpose of this project is to screen potential participants for multiple research studies being conducted by tobacco researchers at Penn State Hershey. Since there are multiple IRB approved studies enrolling at Penn State Hershey with similar but not identical inclusion/exclusion criteria, it is more efficient for the researchers and participants to have one phone number to call initially for basic screening. After completing this, the participant can be redirected for more specific screening if they are found to be potentially eligible for one of the studies.

Participants will fill out a 5-minute survey on tobacco use in order to find out which study they may be eligible for.

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This study will investigate the changes in the human fecal microbiomes and resistomes in response to antibiotic treatment.

This is a pilot study on the impact of switching from cigarettes to Electronic Cigarettes on disease-related clinical symptoms and biomarkers of harm in smokers with preexisting COPD

You will be asked to reduce your cigarette smoking and use study-provided e-cigarettes for 3 months. You will be asked to attend 2 in-person visits at the Hershey Medical Center and participate in 4 telephone visits. Throughout the study you will be asked to complete questionnaires, have heart rate, blood pressure and pulse oximetry taken, electrocardiograms (ECGs), height and weight measured, provide medical history, perform pulmonary function tests, complete a 6-minute walk, have your exhaled carbon monoxide measured, provide urine specimen and have blood drawn.

Placebo-controlled efficacy and safety study of GSK3511294 in participants with severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype

There will be 19 in person visits over the course of 15 months where blood, EKGs, and other assessments will occur. You will receive the study drug every 26 weeks.

This research study of fazirsiran (FAZ-i-sir-an; also called TAK-999 or the “study drug”) because you have alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency-associated liver disease (AATD LD) with METAVIR stage F2 to F4 fibrosis (METAVIR is a system used to score the amount of inflammation and fibrosis seen in a liver biopsy).In AATD, abnormal (Z-AAT) proteins build up in liver cells, leading to varying amounts of liver problems. The goal of treatment with fazirsiran is to prevent and improve the build up of these abnormal proteins that cause liver injury and fibrosis

-The total amount of time you may be involved in the study is about 4 ½ years (230 weeks).-Screening Period of up to 70 days.-Treatment Period of 196 weeks or about 4 years. During the study, you will get the study drug or placebo at the study site.-Follow-up Period of 6 months. You will have visits 6, 12, and 24 weeks after your last injection of the study drug or placebo.-You will have lung function tests (PFT and DLCO) to check how your lungs are workingAt every visit during the treatment period you will have:-Your vital signs will be measured, this includes your heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, temperature, and amount of oxygen in your blood.-You will have a brief physical exam.-Your weight will be measured.-You will have an ECG.-Collect lab samplesDuring specific study visits during the treatment period the following tests will be performed:-An abdominal ultrasound-FibroScan-CT scansYou will complete questionnaires.

Wheezing is a common symptom of respiratory distress in infants and children. Infants who wheeze are at increased risk of being diagnosed with asthma, the most common chronic disease of childhood. This study aims to yield an objective measure of asthma risk using molecular markers obtained from saliva. Saliva miRNA (markers used in this study) levels will be measured using HiSeq technology. Refinement and validation of this measure in future large-scale studies could allow clinicians to accurately predict for families an infant’s risk of asthma and optimize medical management to prevent future hospitalizations.

If your child has a respiratory illness you will be asked to provide a saliva sample at one clinic visit. Six months after the initial encounter, you will be asked to do complete surveys designed to be done remotely at home.

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A Phase 2 Clinical Trial to assess whether study drug DWN12088 is safe and effective in Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

During this study, you will be asked to come to in-person visits at the Hershey Medical Center over a period of 6 months During that time you will visit the study center 8 times and have various tests done including: signing informed consent, providing demographics, having a chest CT scan, reviewing medical history, having a physical exam done, having vital signs and an ECG taken, having bloodwork done, receiving study drug, receiving patient diaries, having study drug administered, performing lung function tests (spirometry, DLCO and 6-minute walk test), and completing questionnaires.

Voluntary research study is to test INBRX-101 as an experimental drug to treat patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The goal of this study is to evaluate the safety and study the therapeutic effects of INBRX-101 in AATD emphysema patients when compared with current approved AATD therapy with A1PI.

You will visit the study site up to a total of 37 times for blood sampling, computed tomography (CT) scan, lung function tests, electrocardiograms (ECGs), study drug administration and questionnaire completion.

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This is a phase 2 pharmaceutical sponsored clinical trial looking to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of experimental drug TTI-101 in patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).

Participants will attend 7 visits over 18-20 weeks at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Participants will receive study treatment for 12 weeks and the study doctor will continue to monitor you for 4 weeks. The study visits will involve completing some procedures and tests such as taking some blood and urine samples, taking vitals signs, physical exams, electrocardiograms (ECGs), questionnaires, breathing and walking tests, and a high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan.

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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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