Leading cause of heart disease ignored in North America's poorest communities
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
A leading cause of heart disease remains overlooked in North America's most impoverished communities, researchers assert. Chagas disease has rendered a heavy health and economic toll, yet insufficient political and medical support for gathering specific data, providing diagnosis and treatment, and developing new tools has impeded much-needed breakthroughs.