This new edition covers important new trials in cardiology therapies and prevention of cardiovascular problems. The world authorities on pharmacologic clinical trials write about the trials, the outcomes and importance for clinical practice. This book gives the general cardiologist insight into the development of new therapies in cardiology as well as the process of how trials were used for those therapies. In addition to providing a manual for how to establish trials, trials for treatment and prevention are covered.

This text, aimed at the clinical cardiologist, covers the planning of and partcipation in a clinical trial. It interprets the importance of past clinical trials in current clinical practice.

Some would say the heart can only take so much. Some would say that the heart can endure many things. Still others might say that the right heart is strong enough for anything. Follow Devon's journey as she faces life. Will her heart endure the trials set before her? Only time will tell.