Topic: William Fearon

Doctors may be implanting too many artery-opening stents and could improve patient outcomes-and ultimately save lives-if they did more in-depth measurements of blood flow in the vessels to the heart. "Not only were the outcomes better, the cost was less," said William ...
Fewer clogged arteries need heart stents, study finds; blood-flow test can show which ones doA new study gives fresh evidence that many people with clogged heart arteries are being overtreated with stents, and that a simple blood-flow test might help prevent unnecessary ...