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There are no grand slams in medicine. But if research in cardiology were a baseball game, we’d be reporting that one or two players are on base with the promise of changing the odds in favor of your home team.

“Breakthroughs occur only in newspaper headlines,” says Gary Francis, M.D., head of the Section of Clinical Cardiology at The Cleveland Clinic. Steady changes, though, have improved the outlook for detecting and treating cardiovascular disease over the past 20 years. Here’s our selection of five particularly promising research fields where something like a home run is most likely to happen. …

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