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Transcript: FDA Weighs Risks, Benefits of Drug-Coated Stents
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- December 7, 2006
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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
12-07-2006
FDA Weighs Risks, Benefits of Drug-Coated Stents
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 21:00 22:00 PM
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Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration have been meeting today to discuss problems with the latest technology to keep blood flowing to the heart. They're talking about a kind of stent that was developed several years ago. Like older stents, it's used to keep an artery open once doctors have unblocked it. So far, the doctors have said that the new stents, which are coated with drugs, increase the risk of blood clots. But there's no evidence that people with the coated stents are more likely to have a heart ...
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