It's heart warming

25 July 2016 - 10:27

By © The Sunday Telegraph

Heart attack victims not expected to live are now fit and healthy after scientists regenerated their hearts with stem cells in a trial that could help millions. The research is the first to show that scarring of heart muscle during heart attacks can be reversed.

Eleven seriously ill patients who had stem-cell injections at the same time as bypass surgery have made an "astonishing" recovery.

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