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A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.

WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Colchicine therapy in cardiovascular medicine: A literature review.

Trube J, Sabina M, Khanani A et al. · 2025 · American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice

Introduction Inflammation is a key risk factor in cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, and has been linked to increased mortality following myocardial infarction. While inflammation promotes tissue repair, sustained…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2025.100525
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Quick glance at 'metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease' therapeutics: Targets, trials, and trends.

Zacharia GS, Ashraf MH, Sosa F et al. · 2025 · World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), recognized as the most prevalent liver disease worldwide and a leading cause of liver transplantation, is closely associated with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease,…

View details →DOI: 10.4292/wjgpt.v16.i4.110827
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Safety, tolerability and biomarker results of bepranemab in participants with progressive supranuclear palsy: a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1b trial.

Höglinger G, Vandenberghe W, Woitalla D et al. · 2026 · BMJ neurology open

Background Preclinical evidence suggests targeting the mid-region of tau as a viable therapeutic strategy in diseases such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP): a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative tauopathy with no currently approved…

View details →DOI: 10.1136/bmjno-2025-001396
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Drugs targeting novel pathways in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Sitbon O, Boucly A, Weatherald J et al. · 2025 · The European respiratory journal

Over the past three decades, several drugs have been developed to target three major dysfunctional pathways in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), including the prostacyclin, endothelin and nitric oxide pathways. Despite these advances,…

View details →DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01830-2024
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Family satisfaction with intensive care and preexisting family and patient characteristics: equivalence analysis of cross-sectional surveys.

Riguzzi M, Verweij L, Naef R · 2025 · Intensive & critical care nursing

Objectives This study aims to demonstrate that family satisfaction with intensive care and decision-making is independent of sociodemographic family member and patient characteristics and the patient outcomes of mortality and length of…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2025.104106
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Using sleep to enhance exposure treatment for anxious children: A pilot study.

Oar EL, Rapee RM, Lavell CH et al. · 2025 · The British journal of clinical psychology

Objectives Exposure therapy is a well-established treatment for anxiety disorders in children; however, many young people do not fully respond to treatment. Advances in strategies to enhance extinction learning from exposure therapy are…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/bjc.12550
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Effect of an educational antimicrobial stewardship programme on antibiotic prescriptions' appropriateness in three medical units of a large university hospital: an interrupted time series analysis.

Giovannenze F, Del Vecchio P, Frondizi F et al. · 2025 · The Journal of hospital infection

Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes aim to enhance antibiotic prescription quality, reduce antibiotic use, and combat multi-drug-resistant pathogens. However, the optimal AMS intervention for different clinical settings…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2025.05.017
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Tremor Recurrence in MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor: DBS vs. Re-lesion.

Walker-Pizarro N, Chan JL, Yu J et al. · 2026 · Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)

Clinical vignette A 59-year-old man with essential tremor (ET) and bilateral symptoms initially underwent left thalamic MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) at an outside institution to address tremor in the right upper extremity.…

View details →DOI: 10.5334/tohm.1194
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Current Insights and Future Perspectives for the Use of Serological Biomarkers in Polymyalgia Rheumatica.

Harkins P, Cowley S, Conway R · 2025 · Journal of inflammation research

There is currently no gold standard diagnostic test or validated serological biomarker to monitor disease activity or inform disease prognostication in isolated Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR). This presents significant challenges as the…

View details →DOI: 10.2147/jir.s558175
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Effect of Ultrasound-Guided Lateral Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block With Lidocaine or Ropivacaine for Closed Reduction of Distal Radius Fractures: A Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial.

Steensbæk MT, Yousef S, Bahuet AR et al. · 2026 · Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Background Closed reduction of distal radius fractures is painful, and current analgesic strategies may be inadequate. Ultrasound-guided lateral infraclavicular brachial plexus block may offer complete analgesia and muscle relaxation,…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/aas.70246
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The Association of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and Arterial Aneurysms: An Update and Review.

Santiago MDS, Wu GY · 2026 · Journal of clinical and translational hepatology

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is an autosomal codominant genetic disorder caused by mutations in the SERPINA1 gene. It results in reduced circulating levels of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT), a serine proteinase inhibitor (PI) primarily…

View details →DOI: 10.14218/jcth.2026.00043
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Effects of chronic stress and angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockade on rats' performance in the five-choice serial reaction time task (5-CSRTT).

Wincewicz D · 2025 · Brain research

Pinpointing the bidirectional relationship between psychiatric and cardiovascular disorders holds the potential to tailor therapy and apply concepts of personalized treatment. Recent findings from both basic and clinical studies indicate…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149741
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Resilience not yet apparent in soil fungal communities of the boreal forest from one to five years after wildfire across a severity gradient

Whitman T, Woolet J, Sikora MC et al. · 2025 · Preprint

Wildfires are natural disturbances characteristic of boreal forests. However, fire regimes around the world are changing, with effects on fire frequency and fire severity. Here, we present data from one and five years post-fire across 40…

View details →DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.29.646032
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Feasibility of an Isolated Kidney Perfusion Model for Postmortem Interval Estimation in a Rabbit Model: A Pilot Study.

Temürkol R, Güler H, Kaya A et al. · 2026 · Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)

Background: The estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI) remains a complex challenge in forensic medicine. While macroscopic, biochemical, and molecular methods are well-documented, postmortem functional approaches at the organ level…

View details →DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics16091266
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Clinical outcome of HIV/AIDS patients with Mycobacterium spp. disease associated with Cytomegalovirus viremia: a retrospective study.

Flores-Andrade XA, Peralta-Prado AB, Porras-Rosales E et al. · 2025 · Preprint

Abstract Background: The mycobacterial and cytomegalovirus co-infection represents a critical intersection of infectious challenges, especially in the context of people living with human immunodeficiency virus infection. This relation…

View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6405843/v1
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Concomitant Bladder Neck Incision in Patients with Posterior Urethral Valve and Blad-der Neck Hypertrophy: Short-term Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ELghareeb A, Dawaba M, Eldeeb M et al. · 2026 · International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology

Introduction Concomitant bladder neck incision (BNI) with posterior urethral valve ablation (VA) was proposed to mitigate the long-term sequela of posterior urethral valve (PUV) and reduce the reoperation rates. This study aimed to…

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Prostate cancer detection by MRI-ultrasonography fusion transperineal vs transrectal biopsy: a randomised control trial.

Schieda N, Morash C, Lavallee LT et al. · 2025 · BJU international

Objective To compare clinically significant prostate cancer (CS-PCa) detection by transperineal (TP) compared to transrectal (TR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-ultrasonography (US) fusion prostate biopsy. Patients and methods Males with…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/bju.16831
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Can Elective Neck Dissection for Oral Cancer Be Planned on the Basis of Depth of Invasion? Retrospective Analysis.

Majumdar KS, Abhinav T, Panuganti A et al. · 2025 · JCO global oncology

Purpose The literature suggests that elective neck dissection (END) may be avoided in primaries with a depth of invasion (DOI) Materials and methods In this retrospective institutional chart review, pathologic N classification (pN) was…

View details →DOI: 10.1200/go-24-00451
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Dose-Escalated Stereotactic Versus Conventional Radiotherapy for Painful Bone Metastases (ROBOMET): A Multicenter, Patient-Blinded Randomized Clinical Trial.

Mercier C, Billiet C, Ost P et al. · 2025 · Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Purpose To test whether dose-escalated single fraction (SF) stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) of 20 Gy to painful bone metastases is superior to conventional SF three-dimensional (3D) conformal radiotherapy (RT) to a standard dose of 8…

View details →DOI: 10.1200/jco-24-01447
Replication FailureMedicine

Chemotherapy-free combination of ibrutinib and obinutuzumab for untreated advanced follicular lymphoma: results of a phase II study from the German Lymphoma Alliance.

Schmidt C, Scheubeck G, Jurinovic V et al. · 2025 · Haematologica

Immunochemotherapy induces long-term responses in patients with follicular lymphoma. However, the toxicity of chemotherapy remains a relevant challenge. The Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib has shown significant activity in…

View details →DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2024.287162
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Localized provoked vulvodynia as an immune-mediated inflammatory disease: rationale for a new line of research.

Paavonen J, Brunham RC · 2024 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

Localized provoked vulvodynia (LPV), also called vulvar vestibulitis or provoked vestibulodynia, is a major cause of dyspareunia that severely impacts sexual health. At the tissue level, lymphocytic inflammation and hyperinnervation are…

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1505845
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Infants with bronchiolitis with high-flow nasal cannula in the paediatric ward. Is there a role for the ROXi (respiratory rate-oxygenation index) in predicting failure of high-flow nasal cannula?

Le Pallec C, Cerasuolo D, Cauvin JC et al. · 2025 · European journal of pediatrics

The respiratory rate-oxygenation index (ROXi) has been shown to be a reliable tool for predicting the risk of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) failure in adult patients with lower respiratory tract infections. However, the usefulness of the…

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Passing the Torch forward: Moving beyond EGFR Inhibition in NMIBC Prevention.

Wu TC, Lin CC · 2025 · Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.)

The study by Downs and colleagues targets patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) to explore secondary/tertiary cancer prevention strategies. Utilizing a "window-of-opportunity" design, erlotinib was evaluated for its…

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Hyperbaric Treatment of Air or Gas Embolism: Current Recommendations.

Moon RE, Mitchell SJ · 2025 · Undersea & hyperbaric medicine : journal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc

Gas can enter arteries (arterial gas embolism) due to alveolar-capillary disruption (caused by pulmonary overpressurization, e.g. breath-hold ascent by divers), veins (venous gas embolism, VGE) as a result of tissue bubble formation due to…

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No survival benefit is associated with pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy in lymph node-negative early-stage endometrioid endometrial cancer.

Yalcin Y, Yalcin SE, Demir BC et al. · 2026 · BMC surgery

OBJECTIVE: The therapeutic role of lymphadenectomy in endometrial cancer remains controversial. Although systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy (PPLND) has been suggested to improve survival in certain patients, randomized…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12893-026-03640-6
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Enamel Matrix Derivative in the Reconstructive Surgical Therapy of Peri-Implantitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Regidor E, Dionigi C, Ghoraishi M et al. · 2026 · Journal of periodontal research

Aims To evaluate the adjunctive effect of enamel matrix derivative (EMD) in the reconstructive surgical therapy of peri-implantitis. Methods Forty subjects (44 implants) affected by peri-implantitis (PPD ≥ 5 mm, positive BOP/SOP,…

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