Research points to way to improve heart treatment
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
Current drugs used to treat heart failure and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat) have limited effectiveness and have side effects. New basic science findings from a University of Iowa study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-related mechanisms.
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