Illustration showing the heart in the human body

Medicine’s Marco Costa discusses screening Ugandan children for heart disease

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MosaicMarco Costa, professor of medicine, screened children in Uganda for early signs of heart disease, explaining how the results of one teenage boy’s screening indicated he could potentially develop rheumatic heart disease—possibly the result of untreated strep throat.