It’s a medical breakthrough in treating clogged arteries. 7 News reported in July about a new kind of stent that slowly absorbs into the body. Now, Greenville Health System has implanted the stent in ...

WASHINGTON – A medical implant that slowly dissolves into the body could be the answer to long-standing safety concerns with devices used to treat clogged arteries. But not so fast, say experts.

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 ...

More than 20 million people in the U.S. are living with peripheral artery disease (PAD) yet there have been limited treatment options The first-of-its-kind Esprit™ BTK Everolimus Eluting Resorbable ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A medical implant that slowly dissolves into the body could be the answer to long-standing safety concerns with devices used to treat clogged arteries. But not so fast, say experts.

Now you see it, now you don't. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said.

Abbott has delivered new, longer-term data from a clinical study of its dissolving stent for severe peripheral artery disease located below the knee, following the implant’s approval by the FDA ...

Coronary stents, those tiny mesh tubes that prop open blocked blood vessels, have helped millions of people avoid invasive and complicated bypass surgery. But stents cease to be needed after the blood ...