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The heart of a stent debate
Dec 6, 2006 | USA Today
Michael Young had a choice. Doctors could clear his three blocked coronary arteries by cracking open his chest and surgically bypassing them. Or...
Controversy Swirls Around FDA Meeting on Stents
Dec 5, 2006 | Newsinferno.com
A planned FDA safety review regarding the use of drug-coated stents is facing intense scrutiny after it was revealed that six doctors on the advisory...
FDA: Stent patients face blood clot risk
Dec 5, 2006 | AP
Patients implanted with drug-coated stents to hold open their choked arteries face a small but significant risk of blood clots, health officials said...
Controversy Swirls Around FDA Meeting on Drug Coated Stents
Dec 5, 2006 | NewsInferno
A planned FDA safety review regarding the use of drug-coated stents is facing intense scrutiny after it was revealed that six doctors on the advisory...
New scrutiny for stents
Dec 4, 2006 | Newsday
The tiny lattice-like props that keep arteries open and blood flowing freely come under scrutiny this week when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
FDA Probes Safety of Popular Heart Stent
Dec 3, 2006 | AP
Millions of chest pain and heart attack sufferers thought they were getting a phenomenal medical advance when tiny coils that ooze medicine were...
FDA panel to probe clotting, new stents
Nov 30, 2006 | Chicago Tribune
With a new report blaming drug-coated heart stents for a fivefold increase in the risk of clotting problems and a Food and Drug Administration panel...
Cleveland Clinic Analysis Finds Patients With Drug-Eluting Stents Are at Increased Risk for Late Thrombosis
Nov 29, 2006 | PRNewswire
There is as much as a four- to five- fold increased relative risk for late thrombosis, or blood clot formation, in patients with drug-eluting stents...
Drug-coated stents carry higher clot risk?
Nov 29, 2006 | UPI
The Cleveland Clinic said its analysis found that patients with drug-eluting stents have a higher risk of late thrombosis. In fact, the Ohio-based...
Millions face risk from drug-coated stents
Nov 21, 2006 | NBC News
Millions of Americans could be walking around with tiny time bombs in their hearts. The concern centers on devices called drug-eluting stents....
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