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Boston Scientific buys new stent company

Boston Scientific has acquired Labcoat Limited, a company that focuses on drug-eluting stent technology, under undisclosed terms. Boston Scientific said in a press release that Labcoat has developed

SPOTLIGHT: Coated stents better for at-risk patients

Another day, another stent study. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that drug-coated stents actually worked better than bare-metal models in a specific subset of

Stents safer than we thought

After sifting the deluge of stent news from Europe over the past few days, experts say that, on balance, drug-coated stents have been avenged. Though the new stents aren't suited to everyone--one