Stroke patients who receive a stent to open an artery to the brain are at greater risk of another stroke or death, a new study shows. In a clinical trial of 450 patients, the half who received brain ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is restricting use of a medical device made by Stryker that props open clogged brain arteries, after reviewing studies suggesting the implant can ...

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers on Friday said Stryker Corp's artery-opening stent for the brain should not be used in most patients, based on new data showing the device caused more ...

New devices called stent retrievers are enabling physicians to benefit selected patients who suffer strokes caused by blood clots. The devices effectively stop strokes in their tracks. For the first ...

According to researchers with the New England Journal of Medicine, brain stents designed to help prevent strokes may actually more than double the risk of stroke which may cause death. According to ...

Can the human mind control external digital devices by thoughts alone? Scientists affiliated with the University of Melbourne and Synchron, Inc. published earlier this week in the Journal of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's common for heart attack patients to get stents in their arteries, but can you do the same for brain stroke patients? Well, one procedure is gaining more and more acceptance, ...

Stroke experts are reporting a major advance: Stents similar to the ones used to open clogged heart arteries also can be used to clear a blood clot in the brain, greatly lowering the risk a patient ...

Synchron has developed a brain-computer interface that uses existing technologies such as the stent and catheter to allow insertion into the brain without the need for open brain surgery. Jesse Orrall ...

Stroke experts are reporting a major advance: Stents similar to the ones used to open clogged heart arteries also can be used to clear a blood clot in the brain, greatly lowering the risk a patient ...