A new treatment has arrived for a condition that feels like a 'heart attack in the legs', caused by blocked arteries ...

Dr. Christopher Busken with Northeast Baptist Hospital has performed surgeries for about 15 years to help people who suffer ...

(Reuters) - Medical device reviewers said a Cook Medical stent coated with a common cancer-fighting drug was safe and effective for treating clogged arteries in the thighs. Zilver PTX, the first ...

(Reuters) - U.S. health advisers on Thursday unanimously backed a new Cook Medical stent coated with a common cancer-fighting drug to treat clogged arteries in the thighs. A panel of outside experts ...

Supera Stent Addresses Growing Need in the U.S. to Treat People with Blocked Blood Vessels and Restore Blood Flow in the Upper Leg Abbott Park, Illinois — Abbott today announced that its Supera® ...

For many of the 2 million to 3 million Americans with leg pain from narrowed arteries, exercise could be more effective than some surgeries, a University of Minnesota researcher says. The primary ...

New Clinical Data Presented for First Time at Medical Meetings in U.S. and Europe Show Durable Vessel Patency in Treating Atherosclerotic Lesions of Superficial Femoral Artery MINNEAPOLIS –– ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new stent that dissolves in the body could help prevent limb loss in people. The team at The Christ Hospital Health Network is among the first in the nation to use a new, ...

CLEVELAND — One in 20 Americans over age 50 has Peripheral Arterial Disease, or P.A.D. Not only does it raise the risk of heart attack and stroke, it can also lead to leg amputation. It happens when ...

Drug-coated "scaffolds" that are placed in the arteries and then melt away over time could offer a new treatment for people with painfully clogged leg arteries, an early study suggests. Researchers ...

Adding cilostazol - an antiplatelet medication used to treat leg pain - tended to prevent re-blockage of carotid artery stents within two years, according to late breaking science presented today at ...

US advisers unanimously recommend Zilver PTX stent Cook stent coated with common cancer-fighting drug Could be first drug-coated stent for peripheral arteries Oct 13 (Reuters) - U.S. health advisers ...