A new report published Tuesday found over one in five coronary stents placed between 2019 and 2021 were unnecessary, costing Medicare $800 million a year and putting patients at risk of complications ...

The procedure to place a stent, often called angioplasty, is performed to restore proper blood flow, reduce symptoms (like ...

Next-generation vascular stents can make cardiovascular therapies minimally invasive and vascular treatments safe and less burdensome. In a new advancement, researchers from Japan and China have ...

When patients are in the throes of a heart attack, there’s no question that stents save lives. But for heart patients with few symptoms and less than severe artery blockage, whether to use a stent is ...

PARIS, France—Some of the smallest vessels in the coronary tree now have their own stent—provided regulators are persuaded by data from the RESOLUTE ONYX 2.0 mm stent study, which was presented ...

Treating narrowed or blocked heart arteries has evolved over the past 40 years. This week, the FDA approved the latest step in that evolution — a stent that dissolves away, leaving nothing behind.

Medical device company Artivion (NYSE:AORT) in Q4 CY2025, but sales rose 19.2% year on year to $116 million. On the other hand, the company’s full-year revenue guidance of $495 million at the midpoint ...

BosSTENT is a novel braided, self-expanding stent that differs from traditional mesh stents intended to treat pulsatile ...

Cardiovascular diseases constitute a major global health concern. Various complications that affect normal blood flow in ...

Iron bioresorbable scaffold achieves noninferior angiographic and clinical outcomes versus drug eluting stent at 2 years in ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...