Carotid stent gets FDA approval
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A new era in stroke prevention gained momentum Tuesday with government approval of a new treatment that clears blocked arteries supplying the brain without major surgery.
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A new device to treat uterine fibroids -- fibrous clumps that can cause miscarriages, painful menstruation and other related problems in women -- won US regulatory approval on Friday.
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Scientists report new developments in the use of stents, which stop blockages in coronary arteries.
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A skin patch to treat the dementia suffered by Alzheimerâs patients has gained federal approval, a drug company said.
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A new drug that fights a form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, won applause if not approval from a panel of advisors to the US Food and Drug Administration.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved an implantable computer chip that can be inserted in patients to pass along their medical history to doctors.
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VIENNA - Boston Scientific Corp. yesterday said its Taxus Liberte drug-coated stent has shown positive one-year safety data in over 7,000 patients.
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FDA approval for the company's colorectal cancer drug is good news for its future prospects.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Drug-coated stents increase the risk of potentially fatal blood clots and heart attacks in some patients, but not enough to warrant limiting use of the devices, federal advisers said yesterday .
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to release new testing requirements for drug-coated heart stents in the next few weeks, the regulatory agency's device chief, Daniel Schultz, told the Wall Street Journal.
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ATLANTA -- A new device that was studied in Atlanta has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to help stroke victims.
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Drug-coated heart stents on the U.S. market are associated with a small but significant risk of blood clots months after they are implanted, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in documents released on Tuesday.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.    One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if injecting certain drugs directly into diseased arteries works better than commonly used stents in keeping arteries clear...
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U.S. regulators have approved a new  medical device to evaluate patients suspected of having blood  clots blocking vessels, including pulmonary arteries, the  manufacturer, Biosite Inc., said on Thursday.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson's neck stent is as effective as surgery in clearing blocked blood vessels to the brain that can cause strokes and death, according to a company-funded study in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.
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A jury in Texas has ruled that Boston Scientificâs drug-coated stents infringe a 1997 patent issued to a radiologist in Princeton, N.J., and has awarded the inventor $431 million in damages, Boston Scientific said Tuesday. The suit by the patent holder, Dr. Bruce N. Saffran, did not seek to halt sales of the stents.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel heard evidence on Thursday about risks of drug-coated stents, the tiny mesh tubes used to prop open arteries in millions of heart patients.