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Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have discovered a new diagnostic test for a severe heart condition that now often goes undetected before causing sudden death...
Since the disease runs in families, the test will likely serve shocked relatives wanting to know whether they are also at risk...
...diagnostic test consists of obtaining a sample of tissue from a heart biopsy and then looking for a specific protein that the researchers found exists in smaller quantities in patients with ARVC, said Angeliki Asimaki, the study’s lead author and a research fellow at the Medical School...
...appears that this diagnostic approach is specific and sensitive,” Asimaki said. “It also appears that this test will show us the protein is expressed even when the disease has progressed very little...
...member on the Senate Intelligence Committee and national-security adviser to Senator Chuck Hagel, said there was little evidence to suggest that the interrogation of terrorism suspects under the Bush Administration had led to information that helped prevent attacks on U.S. soil. "At the Intelligence Committee, we tried to test these claims, but the evidence was very, very tenuous," he said...