Heart Attack? Drug-Coated Stents Best; Brigham and Women’s Hospital And Harvard University Study Vanquishes Worry That Drug-Coated Stents Increase Heart Attack Deaths

WebMD -- Drug-coated stents are safe for all heart attack patients, a large study shows. The 7,217-patient study was designed to address worries that using newer drug-coated stents instead of older bare-metal stents increases the risk of death for some heart attack patients.