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Coated-stent makers rush to reassure after inquiry

By Stephen Heuser
Globe Staff / December 12, 2006

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Last Thursday, the day the Food and Drug Administration launched a two-day advisory panel on the risks of drug-coated stents, doctors across the country found an e-mail on their computers from stent maker Johnson & Johnson, inviting them to join a conference call about stent safety. (Full article: 722 words)

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