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Adult stem cell heart attack study updated at American Society for Hematology Meeting

Doctors are using patients' own bone marrow stem cells (progenitor cells) to treat the damage to cardiac muscle after a heart attack in a study at Emory University School of Medicine. The study investigators will update their colleagues on its progress at the American Society of Hematology meeting in Atlanta next week.

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