Gene therapy offers hope for heart failure patients
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Saint Louis University cardiologists are participating in the first-ever clinical trial of gene therapy to treat severe heart failure. If successful, the treatment would be the first to not only treat the symptoms of heart failure, but also reverse the severity of the disease...
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