Scientists are developing a novel way to prop open clogged heart arteries: using a stent designed to dissolve once it finishes the job. Heart stents are tiny metal-mesh tubes that have been ...

Medical investigators on Long Island and beyond have embarked on a clinical trial to determine if a coronary stent that slowly dissolves into a vessel can effectively protect the heart and enhance ...

But they’re also fallible. Which brings us to a small device known as the cardiac stent. What is it? Well, if you’re having a heart attack – a blockage in one of the arteries that supply ...