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Hattori Y, Abe S, Kakino Y et al. · 2026 · Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics
Interventional trials with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)-raising drugs have generally failed to demonstrate a beneficial effect on cardiovascular outcomes, although low HDL-C levels confer the risk of cerebrocardiovascular…
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Imam R, Chastang KM, Olowojesiku R et al. · 2025 · The Pediatric infectious disease journal
Background Multiple clinical trials evaluating therapies for cerebral malaria (CM) have failed to demonstrate improved outcomes. This may derive from inclusion of children at all risk levels, including those at low risk of mortality or…
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Bhardwaj A, Saili A, Yadav DK et al. · 2025 · Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicine
BackgroundThe prolonged ductal patency in preterm newborns despite being associated with short- and long-term morbidities has failed to show significant improvement in the long-term outcome with routine ductal treatment. Echocardiography…
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Van Gent JM, Clements TW, Gurney JM et al. · 2025 · The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Background Empiric cryoprecipitate administration has recently failed to show survival benefit in hemorrhaging trauma patients. However, a recent Trauma Quality Improvement Program query suggested a survival benefit in massive transfusions…
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Drieghe B, De Buyzere M, Bové T et al. · 2024 · Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
Randomized clinical trials failed to show additional benefit of renal artery stenting on top of medical therapy. Instead of writing an obituary on renal artery stenting, we try to explain these disappointing results. A transstenotic…
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Morimoto J, Satogami K, Naraoka T et al. · 2024 · International heart journal
Deficiency of vitamin B 1 (VB1), an essential micronutrient, causes heart failure (HF). A recent randomized controlled trial failed to show any improvement in HF prognosis after short-term VB1 supplementation. In the current study, we…
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Cornell CA, Norman KA, Griffiths TL et al. · 2024 · Psychological science
We often use cues from our environment when we get stuck searching our memories, but prior research has failed to show benefits of cuing with other, randomly selected list items during memory search. What accounts for this discrepancy? We…
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Huang Y, Huang X, Ling L et al. · 2024 · Kardiologiia
Aim Elevated levels of pro-inflammatory factors in plasma have been linked to worse prognosis after on-pump cardiac surgery, yet interventions that reduce the levels in patients have failed to improve prognosis. Therefore, we explored…
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Zeidan AM, Aakko S, Stahl M et al. · 2026 · Expert review of anticancer therapy
Introduction Higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR-MDS) remain an area of high unmet need in which multiple randomized late-stage trials have failed to improve outcomes beyond hypomethylating agent monotherapy, despite encouraging…
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Olluri A · 2025 · Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Experimental drugs lowering brain tau are heralded as improvements in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. However, the outcomes in clinical trials testing these agents have consistently failed to improve patient outcomes, i.e. slow down…
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Petr V, Tichanek F, Liu SL et al. · 2025 · American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Targeting peritransplant inflammation via tumor necrosis factor alpha blockade failed to improve kidney transplantation outcomes in the CTOT-19 trial that tested infliximab (IFX) induction. As natural antibodies (nAbs) to cardiolipin and…
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Lähteenmäki EI, Lehti S, Jauhiainen M et al. · 2025 · American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism
Although high-density lipoprotein (HDL) has cardiometabolic protecting properties, interventions to raise HDL cholesterol concentration have failed to improve cardiometabolic health. Hence, HDL composition and functionality might be key…
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El Jalkh J, Obeid PM, Guermazi D et al. · 2025 · Dermatopathology (Basel, Switzerland)
A 64-year-old patient presented for management of symptomatic skin-colored papules symmetrically distributed over the lateral neck over the past two years, which failed to improve on multiple topical corticosteroids, antifungal creams, and…
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Mohammed SA, Gorica E, Albiero M et al. · 2025 · Diabetes
Revascularization strategies failed to improve outcome in patients with diabetes with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Histone modifications are key modulators of gene expression and could play a role in angiogenic response. This study…
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Zhang H, Yang Y, Sun S · 2024 · Acta psychologica
In response to the public's puzzle about why maternity leave has unexpectedly failed to improve fertility problem in the Chinese context of a widespread extension of maternity leave, our study concentrates on a prevailing stigmatization…
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Glynatsis MN, Economou M, Papadopoulou K et al. · 2024 · Cureus
This report presents a rare case of a central retinal artery occlusion in an eight-year-old girl attributed to an undiagnosed patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Despite intensive treatment, the patient's eyesight failed to improve. Cases of…
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Barakzie A, Jansen AJG, Cavalcante F et al. · 2025 · Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH
Background Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator prior to endovascular thrombectomy treatment (EVT) failed to improve treatment effect in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients compared with EVT alone.…
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Sanabria A, Rodrigo JP, Araújo ALD et al. · 2025 · Cancers
Background/Objectives : Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) management has shifted following recognition of HPV-driven disease. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has historically failed to improve overall survival (OS) in mixed head…
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Yamaguchi T, Akai S, Uozumi N et al. · 2026 · Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
A 53-year-old male patient presented with dyspnea and was admitted with the diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia.His respiratory condition did not improve despite the resolution of fever with antibiotic therapy, and he was eventually diagnosed…
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Diprose W, Fahed R, Volders D et al. · 2026 · Journal of neurointerventional surgery
Background Randomized trials showed that endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) did not improve outcomes in medium vessel occlusion (MeVO) stroke compared with usual care. We investigated whether patients randomized to EVT who achieved…
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Diz-Lopes M, Rovetta CF, Pollastri F et al. · 2026 · Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA
We evaluated how romosozumab affects bone structure, density, and strength at the wrist over 12 months. Volumetric bone mineral density did not increase, but high-resolution quantitative computed tomography imaging showed modest…
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Adams MS, Mensink RP, Plat J et al. · 2026 · European journal of clinical nutrition
Background Previous almond intervention studies involving relatively healthy populations did not demonstrate improvements in cognitive performance. However, a long-term study with participants at risk of cognitive decline, such as those…
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Finkelstein A, Cantor JC, Gubb J et al. · 2024 · Health affairs (Project Hope)
When a randomized evaluation finds null results, it is important to understand why. We investigated two very different explanations for the finding from a randomized evaluation that the Camden Coalition's influential care management…
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Sameed M, Meng Z, Marciniak ET · 2019 · Breathe (Sheffield, England)
In the EOLIA trial, early use of ECMO did not significantly improve mortality at 60 days in patients with severe ARDS, but when used as a rescue modality ECMO might help improve survival http://bit.ly/2XOjwSE.
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Gogebakan KC, Kunst N, Ghodsi A et al. · 2026 · Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
The TheraP trial demonstrated that 177 Lu-PSMA-617 improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared with cabazitaxel, with no significant difference in overall survival (OS). However, 177 Lu-PSMA-617 was associated with fewer severe…
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Appleman LJ, Kim SE, Harris WB et al. · 2024 · Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Purpose Patients with no evidence of disease (NED) after metastasectomy for renal cell carcinoma are at high risk of recurrence. Pazopanib is an inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and other kinases that improves…
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Park K, Özgüroğlu M, Vansteenkiste J et al. · 2021 · Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Objectives The JAVELIN Lung 200 phase 3 trial did not meet its primary endpoint of improving overall survival (OS) with avelumab vs docetaxel in patients with platinum-treated PD-L1+ NSCLC. We report post hoc analyses assessing the effects…
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Choi, Gutman, Iglesia et al. · 2026 · Urogynecology (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Studies have shown that sexual function improves after surgical correction for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. Current data suggest no significant difference in sexual function between transobturator and retropubic…
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CLEO Collaboration, K. Edwards et al · 1997 · arXiv
We have searched for the decay of the tau lepton into seven charged particles and zero or one pi0. The data used in the search were collected with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.61 fb^(-1). No evidence for a signal is found. Assuming all the charged particles are pions, we set an upper limit on the branching fraction, B(tau- -> 4pi- 3pi+ (pi0) nu_tau) < 2.4 x 10^(-6) at the 90% confidence level. This limit represents a significant improvement over the previous limit.
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Yuliang Liu, Xinye Liu, Xue Wang et al. · 2020 · BMC Plant Biology
Abstract Background As global warming becomes increasingly severe, it is urgent that we enhance the heat tolerance of crops. We previously reported that Arabidopsis thaliana PHOSPHOINOSITIDE-SPECIFIC PHOSPHOLIPASE C9 (AtPLC9) promotes heat tolerance. Results In this study, we ectopically expressed AtPLC9 in rice to examine its potential to improve heat tolerance in this important crop. Whereas AtPLC9 did not improve rice tolerance to salt, drought or cold, transgenic rice did exhibit greater heat tolerance than the wild type. High-throughput RNA-seq revealed extensive and dynamic transcriptome
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