"5. CORONARY STENTS: Billions are spent each year inserting tiny mesh tubes to prop open coronary arteries. But the procedure plus heart drugs turns out not to work any better to prevent future heart attacks than heart drugs alone for patients with stable coronary artery disease, research shows."
I know I wondered about that one. I read something about this after I had my first angioplasty done back in '96. But I also know I'd be dead if it wasn't done. No way drugs could have re-opened my artery, then, or the angio I just had done a few months ago. So I don't know what they're getting at. Are some doc's putting in stents waaaay before there's serious symptoms?
