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(MedPage Today) -- The optimal time to stay on dual antiplatelet therapy following percutaneous coronary intervention remains undefined, but newer-generation stents may require less time on the medications, an analysis found.

LONDON (AP) -- Stroke patients over 70 who get stents to keep their arteries open may be doubling their risk of having another stroke or dying compared to patients who get surgery instead, a new study says....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Two new studies find shortfalls in the Food and Drug Administration's approval process for heart devices such as pacemakers and stents....

A new study gives fresh evidence that many people with clogged heart arteries are being overtreated with stents, and that a simple blood-flow test might help prevent unnecessary care.

Fewer deaths, heart attacks and repeat procedures occurred when doctors implanted fewer of these tiny artery props, using the blood-flow test to decide when they were truly needed, the study found....

People with chronic chest pain who are not in big danger of a heart attack now may have even less reason to rush into an artery-opening angioplasty: There's more evidence drugs should be tried first and often are just as effective....

People with chronic chest pain who are not in big danger of a heart attack now may have even less reason to rush into an artery-opening angioplasty: There's more evidence drugs should be tried first and often are just as effective.