URMC, FDA to collaborate on national data repository for heart r...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 07/08/2008 - 23:00

(University of Rochester Medical Center) The University of Rochester Medical Center will collaborate with the US Food and Drug Administration to develop a national repository of data that will aid academic and industry researchers studying the electrical activity of the heart.

In addition to helping researchers understand many cardiac problems, the data may aid the development of new tools to detect drugs that can have dangerous effects on the heart.


 

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