Richard Brunson has been at Rochester General wrapped up in a sweatsuit for almost two hours. But this is no ordinary sweatsuit, and he says it feels like being at West Virginia beach, sitting outside in a recliner, in 116-degree weather.
“I’m experiencing the heat and the sweating. Let’s see how much body fluid I lose,” Brunson said.
Rochester General is testing a new treatment therapy, recently approved in Israel, that works by making patients with chronic heart failure sweat. This was Brunson’s first day participating in the hospital’s clinical trial…