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Drug Coated Stents
Study: Heart Stents Often Not Worth the Risk or Cost
Mar 27, 2007 | NewsInferno.com
A highly anticipated new study has called into question the long-term effectiveness of stents in the treatment of stable coronary artery disease....
Analysis: Stents' heart value in doubt
Mar 26, 2007 | UPI
Doctors said Monday that angioplasty plus stenting a common, expensive heart procedure plus the best medical treatment failed to reduce the risk of...
Heart stent makers brace for new heart study
Mar 26, 2007 | AP
Wall Street analysts and many doctors expect another potential setback for makers of stents when results of a blockbuster study Tuesday will answer...
Heart Stents No Better Than Treating Stable Heart Patients With Medication, Study Shows
Mar 26, 2007 | Washington Post
The study of more than 2,000 patients found that those who underwent the expensive procedure, known as angioplasty, in non-emergency situations were...
House to scrutinize marketing of stents
Mar 6, 2007 | Boston Globe
As part of a federal inquiry into drug and medical-device marketing, Boston Scientific Corp. was asked by Congress last week to submit to...
Stent research alarms patients
Feb 26, 2007 | The Morning Call
John Wehr couldn't believe what was he was reading. An article on drug-coated stents, the kind used to prop open his two clogged coronary arteries...
Drug-coated stents don't cut risk of heart attacks
Feb 12, 2007 | Boston Globe
The most exhaustive studies yet published on drug-coated stentsT show that the widely used heart devices are no better at preventing heart attacks...
What's Up With Stents, Docs?
Feb 12, 2007 | Newsweek
It's not often that the New England Journal of Medicine devotes most of its editorial content to a single subject—and releases the information...
Making Sense of Drug-Coated Stents
Jan 1, 2007 | Newsinferno.com
When the FDA approved the use of drug-coated stents on April 24, 2003, it was hailed as a landmark advance in the treatment of blocked arteries. ...
Study finds `intriguing evidence' of stents' danger
Dec 30, 2006 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After months of alarm over the small but potentially fatal risk of blood clots forming in the coronary arteries of people who have been implanted...
Drug Coated Stents
