Darling-Hammond (education, Stanford University) presents work based on the early years of an ongoing systemic reform initiative that was launched in San Diego, California, in the late 1990s. The book
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This issue explores the genetic basis of specific cardiomyopathies and phenotypic components of heart failure with an eye to the clinical implications of this genetic knowledge. An unders
