STENTS AS EFFECTIVE AS BYPASS SURGERY

Stents -- mesh tubes often treated with drugs -- work as well as coronary bypass surgery, a Texas study shows. In one study, Texas Heart Institute researchers examined nearly 6,500 patients who underwent bypass surgery or had stents implanted in the period 1995-2003. United Press International (http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060314-053429-6525r)