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This study is being conducted at seven major children's hospitals in Australia and New Zealand to test a new approach for treating a virus, called cytomegalovirus in children with weakened immune systems. The researchers want to find out if using a web app to customise the dose of a medication called ganciclovir is better at clearing the virus over a six-week period compared to the standard method of giving the medication.

The purpose of this study is to assess the reactogenicity, safety and immune response of various formulations of the RSV mRNA investigational vaccine administered in healthy participants 18-45 years of age.

In Canada, about 900 babies each year are born very early (\<26 weeks of gestation) and have a high chance of dying or having a serious bleed in the brain. Families of these extremely preterm babies consider preventing severe brain bleeding as critical to their child's health and well-being. A medicine called indomethacin, when given intravenously in 3-doses, is known to reduce severe brain bleeding. But use of this drug is variable among clinicians working in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) due to (a) its side effects on the gut; (b) possible harm when used with other medications; (c) a notion that despite reducing brain bleeds, the child's long-term brain development is not improved. Emerging evidence suggests that a single low-dose indomethacin regimen may be equally effective in reducing severe brain bleeding as compared to a traditional 3-dose regimen. The investigators propose a blinded randomized controlled trial, a study design where babies born \<26 weeks will be randomly assigned within 12 hours of birth to either a single dose of intravenous indomethacin or similar looking placebo in the form a saline solution. The study will test if a single dose indomethacin regimen is effective in improving survival of these babies without the devastating complication of severe brain bleeding. In this study the care providers and researchers will be unaware as to which baby receives indomethacin and which baby receives placebo to ensure no one's expectations or biases can influence the results. The investigators will conduct the study in multiple NICUs across Canada, the United States and Australia in 2 phases: First, an internal pilot phase that will enroll 104 babies born \<26 weeks or \<750 g birth weight over a period of 1 year. If the investigators are successful in achieving their target enrolment in the pilot phase, they will move on to the second phase and continue enrollment up to a total of 500 babies born \<26 weeks or \<750 g birth weight over a period of 3 years. The total of 500 babies will include the 104 babies enrolled in the first phase of the study. This study will help the investigators determine in the most unbiased way whether a single dose of indomethacin given immediately after birth in the smallest babies born \<26 weeks of gestation can safely and effectively reduce severe brain bleeding.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a lung condition resulting in inflammation and stiffening of the lung, often associated with connective tissue diseases (CTDs). ILD causes reduction in lung volume, shortness of breath, cough and fatigue therefore has high impact on quality of life and is also the leading cause of death in participants with these conditions. The study will assess whether treatment of CTD-ILD participants with belimumab in addition to standard therapy will result in the stabilization and/or improvement of lung function and improve symptoms associated with ILD with an acceptable safety profile.

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to learn if an intervention of reducing plastic exposure through diet, personal care and cleaning products can improve health outcomes in adult participants with cardiometabolic risk factors. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Will the low plastic exposure intervention reduce urinary excretion of bisphenols? * Will the low plastic exposure intervention reduce urinary excretion of phthalate metabolites? * Can reducing plastic exposure improve cardiometabolic biomarkers? Researchers will compare this 4-week low plastic intervention with a control/no intervention group. Participants in the intervention group will: * be provided with food that have no/low plastic and plastic-associated chemicals * be provided with personal care and cleaning produces that have no/low plastic and plastic-associated chemicals * replace cooking and food preparation equipment with no/low plastic alternatives Participants in the control group will not receive the intervention and are not expected to change their behaviour. All participants will provide biological samples (urine, stool, nasal lavage and blood) at several timepoints during the study and attend 4 clinic visits: screening and before, during and after the intervention. Participants will also complete the sociodemographic questionnaire, a physical activity assessment using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ - Short Form), the 24-hr personal care product recall questionnaire, the plastic-associated chemicals questionnaire and be interviewed by a member of the research team to complete a 24-hour diet recall (24DR-PE) of food consumed, and how it was stored prepared, and consumed. The 24DR-PE will facilitate assessments of deviations from the protocol, and enable the assessment of energy, macro and micronutrient intake.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of three new artificial tear formulations in subjects with moderate dry eye disease.

EYE-RES-102 is a randomized, double masked pivotal study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 2 dose levels of EYE103 in comparison with the active control, ranibizumab, in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) In the first year, all 3 treatment groups will be treated every 4 weeks with either EYE103 or ranibizumab. Beginning at Year 2, the frequency of treatment for participants will shift based on a personalized treatment interval algorithm. Approximately 960 participants will be entered in the study.

The main objective is to assess the safety and tolerability of inebilizumab in adult participants with active and refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with nephritis (Subprotocol A) and to assess the safety and tolerability of subcutaneous (SC) blinatumomab in adult participants with active and refractory SLE with and without nephritis (Subprotocol B Part A) and in adult participants with active refractory rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (Subprotocol C Part A). The trial will also assess the efficacy of SC blinatumomab in adult participants with active and refractory SLE with and without nephritis (Subprotocol B Part B and Subprotocol C Part B).

This is a randomized, active-controlled, observer-blinded, dose-escalation multi-center trial of 2 doses of an investigational HZ vaccine (Z-1018) in approximately 764 healthy adults.

This study is being done to learn more about a new drug called BG-89894 (previously known as SYH2039). Researchers want to see if the drug is safe, how well people can tolerate it, how it moves through the body, and whether it shows any early signs of helping to treat cancer. The information gathered may help guide how future studies are designed. The entire study is expected to last about four years. People who join the study may receive treatment for around six months and will be followed for about 12 months after their treatment ends. The study plans to enroll participants over a three-year period.