First Gene Therapy For Heart Failure Offered In Clinical Trials

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Wed, 06/18/2008 - 20:30

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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