Health Care Heroes: Srivastava teaching hearts to heal themselves

Deepak Srivasta of the Gladstone Institutes.

If you have a heart attack today, you’re far more likely to survive than you would have only a decade ago. The problem is that your heart may be irrevocably damaged, causing you to have trouble climbing stairs, walking or even crossing the street. You may also be headed for heart failure. But an astonishing discovery by Deepak Srivastava and his team at the Gladstone Institutes offers hope that heart damage may one day be reversible.