Innovative Devices and Futuristic Therapies

October 13, 2008 Filed Under: Health care

Clinical investigators at today’s “Innovative Devices and Futuristic Therapies” session during the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, presented 12-month follow-up data from the ATLANTA Trial. The results include zero percent thrombosis in patients discontinuing dual anti-platelet therapy after only 30 days.
The ATLANTA Trial is a first-in-man [...]

Boston Scientific Inc. announced comprehensive data from the TAXUS ATLAS clinical program

October 12, 2008 Filed Under: Health care

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced comprehensive data from the TAXUS ATLAS clinical program, a series of global, prospective, multi-center, single-arm, historically controlled trials, which evaluate the TAXUS® Liberte® Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System in a variety of lesions and patient groups. The TAXUS Liberte Stent received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval on Friday. Results from the [...]

Similarly Low Rates in Patients With Diabetes Compared to Non-Diabetics

October 12, 2008 Filed Under: Health care

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX – News) today announced results from an analysis of nearly 7,500 patients from its TAXUS ARRIVE 1 and 2 registries, which are designed to confirm the performance of the TAXUS® Express2(TM) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System in real-world practice. The two-year pooled ARRIVE data showed that the TAXUS Stent reduced clinical [...]