Items Tagged ‘stent’
April 18, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Star Tribune Mayo Clinic builds ‘Better’ app to […]
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December 1, 2011
One in 10 stent patients readmitted within a month
One out of every 10 people who get a stent inserted to open up blocked arteries ends up back in the hospital within 30 days, suggests a new study that also found the readmitted patients are more likely to die in the next year… That does not mean a hospital’s readmission rates are not one […]
Tags: Dr. David Holmes, stent
October 16, 2009
Stent Aims to Help Stop Erectile Dysfunction
People may be used to getting spam e-mails offering discounts on Cialis, Levitra or Viagra, but if a new clinical trial is successful, men with erectile dysfunction may someday be flooded with e-mails for another option: a stent. Medtronic has begun testing on a new pelvic stent for men who have not been helped […]
Tags: erectile dysfunction, stent