{"id":27537,"date":"2016-07-05T23:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T06:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/fda-approves-first-dissolving-stent-for-us-patients"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:05","slug":"fda-approves-first-dissolving-stent-for-us-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/fda-approves-first-dissolving-stent-for-us-patients","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves first dissolving stent for US patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-first-dissolving-stent-for-us-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glad it has been approved. This would have been great for BMI technology as well; however, FDA limits it to only treat clogged arteries.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A medical implant that slowly dissolves into the body could be the answer to long-standing safety concerns with devices used to treat clogged arteries.<\/p>\n<p>But not so fast, say experts.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott Laboratories\u2019 newly-approved Absorb stent comes with one important caveat: it hasn\u2019t yet been shown to be safer than older metal implants.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/medical\/fda-approves-first-dissolving-stent-for-us-patients\/ar-AAi7P3G?ocid=ansmsnhealth11\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/medical\/fda-approves-first-d...snhealth11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad it has been approved. This would have been great for BMI technology as well; however, FDA limits it to only treat clogged arteries. WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A medical implant that slowly dissolves into the body could be the answer to long-standing safety concerns with devices used to treat clogged arteries. But not so fast, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67014,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions\/67014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}