First Gene Therapy For Heart Failure Offered In Clinical Trials
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 19:28
in Health & Medicine
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.
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