The Medical Freedom Channel

“Expensive drug-coated stents — used to prop open clogged coronary arteries — are not worth using in many patients, Swiss researchers said on Friday. The devices can, however, be cost-effective in a subset of heart patients who have particularly narrow vessels. Their findings from an 18-month study of 826 patients paint a less favorable value-for-money picture than previous research and will stoke fresh controversy over when to use drug stents.” (11/01/07)