It is currently unknown what factors predict response to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) or Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CR) among individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, thus the current trial will examine predictors of response to determine who requires the combined intervention and who might respond sufficiently to either monotherapy.

The aim of this study is to determine if a standardized evidence-based opioid prescription following elective hand and forearm surgery at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) will decrease the number of unused opioid pills consumed by patients while still maintaining adequate pain control as compared to usual treatment. Currently, no standardized prescription exists at our institution.

This study will compare the two imaging modalities (MRI and micro-ultrasound) during Active Surveillance of prostate cancer (PCa). Progression to clinically significant PCa will be assessed by first taking micro-US targeted samples (while blinded to MRI results), followed by MRI targeted samples, finishing with 12 systematic biopsy cores. The primary goal is to compare microUS to MRI for the detection of ≥GG2 PCa at confirmatory biopsy. This study will also collect blood samples from participants to be used for future biomarker studies.

The International Severe Asthma Registry is a global initiative looking to ensure that the care of people with severe asthma will continue to improve by collecting detailed information about the health and treatment of as many people with the disease as possible. The study will gather anonymized longitudinal real-life data for participants with severe asthma for five years. The purpose of the registry is to track the progress of participants and determine how well they are responding to treatment. Medical research using data from the registry will give the investigators a better understanding of severe asthma and help the investigators develop and improve the care and treatment for severe asthma participants. The Canadian cohort of the registry will collect information from Canadian participants with severe asthma across seven different sites.

Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) will be used in an open label, multicenter, study in combination with etoposide for subjects with relapsed/refractory neuroblastoma.

This is a prospective, single institution, phase I-II study of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for unresected breast cancer. Twenty-four patients with advanced breast cancer who are not candidates for surgery (metastatic disease, unresectable, medically inoperable) or decline surgery will be enrolled in a prospective study using SBRT (4 fractions of radiation therapy over 12-15 days) as the primary treatment modality.

The goal of this observational study is to develop new algorithms to detect apnea and/or hypopnea to provide additional insights to Skiin users and to their circle of care to validate and/or improve the current algorithms of the Skiin system for extraction of biological metrics during sleep based on the Skiin ECG and accelerometry data.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic disease of the lungs that affects more than 2.5 million Canadians. Patients with COPD experience episodes of lung attacks (or exacerbations). During these attacks, patients experience an intense increase in symptoms, such as breathlessness and cough. It is challenging to decide which patients should be put on treatments that would reduce the risk of such lung attacks. The digitization of health records in many clinics and hospitals means complex risk prediction algorithms can be used to predict the risk of lung attacks to enable personalized care. In this study, our team will implement a risk prediction tool (called ACCEPT) into the electronic health records in two teaching hospitals in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Canada. A clinical study will be conducted to evaluate if the use of this tool results in patients with COPD receiving better care with better outcomes, and if they are more satisfied with the care they are receiving.

Patients with unexplained atherosclerosis (severe atherosclerosis not explained by traditional risk factors) will receive fecal microbial transplants (FMT) from patients with a Protected phenotype (patients who have high levels of risk factors but little or no carotid atherosclerosis). The objective is to determine what changes in the intestinal microbiome are associated with a decline in plasma levels of toxic metabolites of the itnestinal microbiome such as trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and p-cresylsulfate. The intention is to develop an ecosystem therapeutic of cultured bacteria to treat atherosclerosis.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of ALN-APP on measures of CAA disease progression and to characterize the safety, tolerability, and pharmacodynamics (PD) of ALN-APP in adult patients with sporadic CAA (sCAA) and Dutch-type CAA (D-CAA). The study will be conducted over 2 periods: a 24-month double-blind treatment period and an optional 18-month open-label extension (OLE) period. The estimated duration of study participation, inclusive of screening, treatment, and additional safety follow-up, is up to 50 months.