Heart Stents Don’t Decrease Chest Pain

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” -- Richard Feynman

This month brought more bad news for coronary artery stents. To understand how far coronary stents have fallen, we have to understand what we’ve been using them for. But first I should explain that coronary stents are life-saving treatments during a heart attack. That has been well established and is not changed by anything in this post. T...
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