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The purpose of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study is to determine the efficacy of frexalimab in delaying the disability progression and the safety up to 36 months double-blind administration of study intervention compared to placebo in male and female participants with nrSPMS (aged 18 to 60 years at the time of enrollment). People diagnosed with nrSPMS are eligible for enrollment as long as they meet all the inclusion criteria and none of the exclusion criteria. Study details include: * This event-driven study will end when the target number of 6-month cCDP events is achieved, and the study is expected to last 43 months from randomization of the first participant to the common study end. * The number of scheduled visits will be up to 25 (including 3 follow-up visits) with a visit frequency of every month for the first 6 months and then every 3 months. * If the prespecified number of events for 6-month cCDP is not reached by V21/W180, scheduled visits will continue every 3 months.
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This study aims to find out how many patients sent to the emergency department by their general practitioner could instead be treated in a walk-in clinic. Walk-in clinics provide quick, basic medical care without an appointment and can perform simple tests like blood work and X-rays. By identifying patients who don't need full hospital emergency care, this study hopes to improve patient flow and reduce overcrowding in emergency rooms in the Île-de-France region.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the MEDTRUM Hybrid Closed Loop (HCL) System in children, adolescents, and adults with type 1 diabetes (7-75 years old) in a home setting and to test the function of meal announcement in an extend study. The main question it aims to answer is : • Is the Hybrid Closed Loop system superior at increasing the time spent in the target glucose range of 70-180 mg/dL when compared to the Open (manual) Loop system ? Participants will be : * Trained into the use of the Insulin pump MEDTRUM A8 TouchCare® Insulin Management system * Randomized to the Open Loop or Closed Loop group * Respond to self administered questionnaires : the Hypoglycaemia Fear Survey, the Diabetes Quality of Life Questionnaire, and the Diabetes treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire status Researchers will compare the time spent in the target glucose range of 70-180 mg/mL during the last 12 weeks of the study between the patients randomised to the Open Loop group and those randomised to the Closed Loop group.
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METHODOLOGY Prospective, observational, multicentric and national epidemiological study, within the scope of the OFSEP, including all groups of patients eligible to participate in the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaque (OFSEP) (definite MS, radiologically isolated syndromes, clinically isolated syndromes, neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and NMO spectrum disorders), with no age limit and an ongoing pregnancy. Women will be followed during pregnancy and in the year after and their children until 6 years of age. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS To be determined for each specific question. EXPECTED RESULTS Interactions between pregnancy and MS course have been well characterized before the therapeutic era. Neurologists and patients are lacking information to weigh benefits and risks of DMDs used immediately before or during pregnancy, including short and long-term risks to the mother and to the child, but also after delivery. This study should help provide better answers to those questions as well as to still controversial questions about locoregional analgesia and breastfeeding. By following these patients within the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaque (OFSEP) cohort, the investigator will also have access to a comprehensive description of MS before pregnancy but also in the long term.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system and the leading cause of severe non-traumatic disability in young people, affecting 110,000 people in France. Ocrelizumab, a humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, has shown remarkable efficacy in Phase III trials on the inflammatory component of the disease, reducing the annualized relapse rate by 46% and the rate of new T2 lesions by 80% compared with interferon-β 1a. The use of anti-CD20 agents, including ocrelizumab, is associated with an infectious risk that increases with duration of exposure, part of which is due to the development of hypo-gammaglobulinemia in relation to cumulative dose. Several reports suggest a persistent effect of anti-CD20 drugs in MS, with no resumption of inflammatory activity after discontinuation: * During the development of ocrelizumab, at the end of phase 2, after having received 3 or 4 semi-annual cycles of ocrelizumab, a safety period with a therapeutic window of 18 months was planned, before re-administration in the extension study. During this therapeutic window, the annualized relapse rate remained stable, and patients showed no radiological disease activity. * Scandinavian observational studies of "off-label" use of anti-CD20 in MS provide real-life evidence of the absence of recovery of clinical and radiological activity after prolonged interruption of treatment. After 2 years of treatment, and with disease activity under control, spacing administration intervals could reduce the risk of infection without reducing treatment efficacy. This would facilitate the decision to maintain highly active immunotherapy over the long term. In addition, this therapeutic de-escalation, by reducing the frequency of infusions and associated day hospitalizations, would help to reduce treatment management costs. Our aim is to evaluate the non-inferiority of 12-monthly spacing of ocrelizumab infusions versus the conventional 6-monthly regimen, in a population of active MS patients over 18 years of age who have already received 4 or more semi-annual cycles of treatment for 2 years.
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This study, called TARGET-ASPECT, looks at patients who had a type of stroke called acute ischemic stroke and were treated with clot-busting medicine and a procedure to remove the clot. Even with these treatments, about half of patients don't fully recover. The study aims to see if certain brain imaging scores, especially when combined, can better predict how well patients will recover 90 days after their stroke and if their blood vessels reopen successfully. The study will include 152 patients and last about 9 months. The goal is to find easy and reliable tools that doctors can use to make better treatment decisions.
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Colorectal cancer occurs mainly in elderly patients. Recent estimation showed that in France more than 50% of the patients diagnosed with a colorectal cancer are 70 years old or more. Adjuvant chemotherapy has demonstrated a benefit on disease-free survival and overall survival after a stage III colon cancer resection. Nevertheless adjuvant chemotherapy is poorly used in elderly patients. Prognostic improvement with chemotherapy based on 5FU is suggested by a post-hoc analysis of randomized prospective clinical trial. But elderly patients in this study were highly selected and patients older than 80 represented only 0.7% of the total population. Thus, there is still a concern about the benefit of adjuvant 5FU-based chemotherapy in very elderly unselected patients. The recommended treatment for stage III adjuvant chemotherapy is a combination of fuoropyrimidine and oxaliplatin. Nevertheless oxaliplatin did not demonstrated survival advantage in elderly patients. Altogether there are still two matters of debate: * First, is there a benefit of fluoropyrimidine-based adjuvant chemotherapy for unfit elderly patients? * Second, is there a benefit of oxaliplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy for fit elderly patients? The aim of this randomized phase III study is to evaluate the benefit for disease-free survival of adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patient and which chemotherapy. The elderly patient population will be dichotomized into two groups according to physician's choice after a multidisciplinary evaluation involving a geriatrician, with two different randomization assignments. The patients with an expected life-expectancy below 4 years according Lee score are excluded of this study. Some biological tumour abnormalities are more frequently observed in elderly (i.e. mismatch repair deficiency), therefore an evaluation of specific biological prognostic factors is needed in elderly population.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS). This disease is the leading cause of non-traumatic disability in young adults and France is characterized by a high prevalence (currently 1/1000 inhabitants) of MS. Clinical trials with B cell depleting therapies have shown efficacy in relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) and are increasingly perceived as an important addition to the existing panel of Disease-modifying treatments (DMTs). Rituximab, a mouse chimeric anti CD20, is approved for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, certain forms of vasculitis and Rheumatoid Arthritis with first marketing approval in 1998. Rituximab has undergone clinical testing in RRMS in 2008 in a phase II placebo-controlled trial, demonstrating the clinico-radiological efficacy in 104 patients. Despite these promising results and the absence of adverse events, its clinical development was interrupted by the manufacturer (Roche). However, for several years, rituximab has been increasingly prescribed (off-label) in Europe and USA in patients refractory to first-line therapies, with a very good safety and efficacy. Thus, rituximab is prescribed for 40% of RRMS patients treated in Sweden. Roche has then developed a humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (Ocrelizumab). Two phase III clinical trials (OPERA I and II) have demonstrated its efficacy in active RRMS. Ocrelizumab has just been authorized in France in this indication: RRMS patients with active disease (clinical or radiological). So, it can be prescribed as a first line or second line therapy in active RRMS patients. According to literature, there are no biological arguments to think that ocrelizumab could be more effective in active RRMS compared to rituximab. Moreover, regarding safety, rituximab has been used for other indications for almost two decades and no serious concern has arisen. The high cost of this new antibody (x6 to 10) compared to rituximab) makes it wonder about its place inside the anti-CD20 therapeutic strategy compared to rituximab for treating relapsing MS patients. Hypothesis: Researchers hypothesize that rituximab and ocrelizumab have the same efficacy in active RRMS patients. Indeed, if the non-inferiority of rituximab on the % of patients without disease activity is confirmed by the trial, the potential medico-economic benefit from a societal perspective will be a strong argument to ask for authorization of rituximab in active RRMS.