Drug-coated heart stents face safety review
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U.S. advisers will start considering on Thursday the risks of drug-coated stents implanted in millions of heart patients, examining evidence showing the devices may lead to dangerous blood clots.
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The Medicare program is rethinking its blanket coverage for all uses of drug-coated heart stents, a potential blow to Boston Scientific Corp. , Johnson &amp; Johnson, and others in the $6 billion-a-year industry.
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Drug-coated stents were linked to a higher death rate when given to people with a certain type of heart attack, a finding that may limit doctors' use of the mesh tubes to prop open arteries.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Drug-coated heart stents deliver benefits that outweigh any risks of blood clots when placed in appropriate patients, a U.S. advisory panel said on Thursday.
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It turns out the common practice of using stents to open the heart may not be right for some patients.
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New studies shed some light on these controversial heart treatments, but many questions remain. What patients need to know.
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Drug-coated stents -- tiny wire-mesh tubes used to prop open clogged heart arteries -- may not be as dangerous as earlier thought, Swedish researchers who had raised concerns over the devices said on Sunday.
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Meta-analysis finds J&J's stents are safer than Boston Scientific's stents -- maybe.
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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely in patients getting drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared to the older bare-metal variety, according to a large data analysis released on Wednesday.
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Kaiser Permanente, one of the biggest   U.S. health and hospital systems, has begun to study the safety   of drug-coated stents amid new signals that the widely used   heart devices might lead to fatal blood clots.
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The FDA is about to make it harder for drug-eluting stents to win its approval.
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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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NEW YORK - Johnson &amp; Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. reported new safety data yesterday for drug-coated stents that may help revive sales depressed by prior reports linking the devices to a higher risk of heart attacks.
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MONDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Heart patients with drug-eluting stents implanted to keep their arteries open were found to have a much higher risk of sudden death than those getting bare metal stents if they stopped taking the blood thinner Plavix, a new Swiss study reports.
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Scientists report new developments in the use of stents, which stop blockages in coronary arteries.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Drug-coated heart stents deliver benefits that outweigh any risks of blood clots when used as directed, a U.S. advisory panel said on Thursday.
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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.