CHICAGO—Abbott Laboratories said Monday that its experimental dissolvable heart stent was approved for use in Europe, a milestone in the development of the next-generation heart device for patients ...

HARRISBURG – It’s a leading cause of heart attacks, and now doctors in the Midstate are re-thinking how to deal with coronary artery disease. A local hospital chain is the first in the state to use a ...

Abbott Laboratories ABT received a major boost when the FDA approved its bioresorbable heart stent, Absorb, for the treatment of coronary artery disease in the U.S. Approximately 15 million people in ...

Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento and Mills-Peninsula Health Services, both affiliates of Sutter Health, will be among the first in the country to offer patients with coronary artery disease a new ...

(Reuters) - Abbott's Absorb dissolving heart stent proved as safe and effective one year after being placed in a diseased artery as the company's market-leading Xience drug coated metal stent with a ...

Cardiologists have implanted Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories’ new dissolving heart stent into the first patients, according to The Wall Street Journal. The biodegradable stent, called Absorb, was ...

The FDA meets on Tuesday to review Abbott Laboratories’ first-of-a-kind heart stent that dissolves into the body after helping to clear fat-clogged arteries. Abbott has asked the agency to approve its ...

Sardarmull Chordia, 49, says he didn’t know that he had a severe heart condition and had already survived a heart attack before his test res. A routine trip to a family doctor ended in 49-year-old ...

WASHINGTON (March 18, 2017) -- Patients receiving the Absorb everolimus-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), a dissolving stent to open clogged vessels around the heart, showed outcomes ...

Providence Health and Vascular Center is the only Oregon hospital helping test a new type of heart stent that is not metal and melts away once it’s done its job. Providence Health and Vascular ...

CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Research being conducted here in the Bay Area could provide a major advance for heart patients. Surgeons at John Muir Medical Center in Concord are implanting patients with a ...

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 ...