Stent Makers Hurt by Reports About Safety
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Shareholder qualms about growth prospects for the stent business shook the stocks of Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson and Boston Scientific, the top makers of drug-coated heart stents, both released studies saying their $2,200 devices are safer than bare-metal stents that cost half as much. The studies capped three days of debate at Europe's biggest medical conference, the World Cardiology Congress in Barcelona, sparked by independent researchers who said bare-metal stents were safer. The Boston ...
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel on Friday was divided over whether current data warrant changes to drug-coated heart stent labels for their use in patients with more medical complications unapproved for the device.
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Coronary stents don&#39;t improve the long-term survival rates of heart patients, a Duke University Medical Center study contends.
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New drug-oozing stents widely used to prop open clogged arteries are associated with an increased risk of blood clots, heart attacks and death for the majority of patients receiving the devices, an expert panel concluded yesterday.
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Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly 5 percent more likely to die a year or more later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, new research showed on Tuesday.
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Drug-coated heart stents might not increase the risk of blood clots as much as previously thought, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of cardiologists.
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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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NEW YORK  - When people with diabetes  undergo coronary artery stenting to open clogs, women are more  at risk for major adverse events than men, doctors in Germany  report.
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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients who have drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared with the older bare-metal variety, according to a large data analysis by the Cleveland Clinic released yesterday.
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The company cited lower sales of some of its most important health care products, including stents and an anemia drug whose sales were hurt by safety questions.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - The Food and Drug Administration should consider telling patients and doctors that the use of drug-coated heart stents in unapproved, high-risk cases can lead to greater complications, a panel of medical experts said on Friday.
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Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to die six months to two years later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, research showed on Tuesday.
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BARCELONA -- Specialists expressed concerns yesterday that drug-coated heart stents -- metal-mesh tubes used to prop open coronary arteries -- might increase the chances of potentially fatal blood clots.
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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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Boston Scientific receives a warning letter from the FDA on a discontinued stent trial.
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Drug-coated stents -- tiny wire-mesh tubes used to prop open clogged heart arteries -- may not be as dangerous as previously thought, Swedish researchers who had earlier raised concerns over the devices said on Sunday.