Doctors try asthma drug, pump to treat heart failure

Thursday, June 7, 2007

WASHINGTON -- U.S. doctors are beginning a dramatic experiment this month to try to save patients dying from congestive heart failure -- by temporarily resting their hearts and then boosting them with a drug long abused for bodybuilding.

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