According to three recent medical studies, stents-small mesh tubes used to keep bodily vessels open-inserted into clogged brain arteries may work better than currently used medical drugs and have ...

New devices called stent retrievers are enabling physicians to benefit selected patients who suffer strokes caused by blood clots. The devices effectively stop strokes in their tracks. For the first ...

Stroke patients who receive a stent to open an artery to the brain are at greater risk of another stroke or death, a new study shows. In a clinical trial of 450 patients, the half who received brain ...

Stroke experts are reporting a major advance: Stents similar to the ones used to open clogged heart arteries also can be used to clear a blood clot in the brain, greatly lowering the risk a patient ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is restricting use of a medical device made by Stryker that props open clogged brain arteries, after reviewing studies suggesting the implant can ...

Can the human mind control external digital devices by thoughts alone? Scientists affiliated with the University of Melbourne and Synchron, Inc. published earlier this week in the Journal of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's common for heart attack patients to get stents in their arteries, but can you do the same for brain stroke patients? Well, one procedure is gaining more and more acceptance, ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 23 (Reuters) - U.S. advisers on Friday said Stryker Corp's artery-opening stent for the brain should not be used in most patients, based on new data showing the device caused ...

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Stroke experts are reporting a major advance: Stents similar to the ones used to open clogged heart arteries also can be used to clear a blood clot in the brain, greatly lowering the risk a patient ...