First gene therapy for heart failure offered at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 14:21
in Health & Medicine
NYC's only medical center offering promising therapy as part of CUPID clinical trial Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are setting out to answer that question in a first-ever clinical trial of gene therapy to treat severe heart failure.