The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A new study on heart stents produced sobering and possibly life-altering results. It says that stents may not be needed in some cases. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reports, the key ...

Federal health advisers overwhelmingly backed the safety and effectiveness of an experimental heart stent that slowly dissolves into the body after doing its job This undated image provided by Abbott ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A disappearing medical implant will get a closer look from the Food and Drug Administration this week. The FDA meets on Tuesday to review Abbott Laboratories' first-of-a-kind heart ...

Scientists are developing a novel way to prop open clogged heart arteries: using a stent designed to dissolve once it finishes the job. Heart stents are tiny metal-mesh tubes that have been implanted ...

CHICAGO—Abbott Laboratories said Monday that its experimental dissolvable heart stent was approved for use in Europe, a milestone in the development of the next-generation heart device for patients ...

Jerry Bailey was awake while a medical team at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital reopened one of his previously stented arteries using a new heart procedure. "It's working," the 73-year-old said a few ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drug-coated heart stents are as safe as the old bare metal variety for patients with narrowed large coronary arteries, a large European study showed, alleviating concerns about ...