U.S. panel weighs unapproved drug-coated stent use
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - The broad use of drug-coated heart stents in unapproved patients came under scrutiny on Friday as U.S. advisers weighed the risks of the tiny tubes implanted in millions to keep arteries open.
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A Food and Drug Administration panel tomorrow will consider one of the most urgent questions in medicine: what to do about the risk of blood clots caused by drug-coated stents, tiny medical devices implanted in the arteries of millions of people.
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The Food and Drug Administration said last night it would convene a public panel to examine the risk of blood clots in patients with drug-coated stents, among the world's most frequently implanted medical devices.
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The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to sanction Boston Scientific Corp. after reviewing its handling of safety recalls of its new cardiac stent system, an agency official said yesterday.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson is picking a price fight over drug-coated stents. Does Boston Scientific Corp. need to respond?
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The new drug-coated stents implanted to keep arteries open might increase the risk of a later heart attack if a patient stops taking clot-preventing drugs such as aspirin even briefly, Dutch cardiologists warn.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel unanimously said the benefits of drug-coated heart stents outweigh their risks when used as directed, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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The panel will weigh evidence that stents used to treat clogged arteries can cause fatal blood clots, and is expected to recommend stricter regulation of the devices.
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Patients implanted with drug-coated stents to hold open their choked arteries face a small but significant risk of blood clots, health officials said Tuesday, and a new study recommended they take clot-busting medications indefinitely.
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Boston Scientific Corp. found a slightly higher risk of blood clotting in patients implanted with its newer drug-coated stents compared with older bare-metal versions, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Drug-coated stents may carry a delayed risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, according to a new report.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration plans to revamp how it handles safety issues with the stents, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and other medical devices it regulates.
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Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday will consider the risks of drug-coated stents in patients with medical complications who are not approved for the artery-opening heart devices.
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Patients who get the leading drug-coated stents to prop open coronary arteries rather than bare-metal stents run no higher risk of death, according to a new report by a multinational team of doctors.
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The catheter that triggered three safety recalls by Boston Scientific Corp. of its best-selling Taxus coronary stent after being linked to three deaths and 47 injuries had not been subjected to the rigors of a human clinical trial, FDA records show.
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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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A panel recommended that doctors and patients be given stronger warnings about the dangers associated with the use of drug-coated stents.