A 33-year-old woman visited the hospital for pain in her lower left back and painful urination. Upon examination, doctors discovered a medical device that had been left inside her body for 15 years.

Doctors telling patients about heart stents can use a new phrase when describing the medical devices: As Seen On TV! In a first-of-its-kind pitch, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson aired an ad for ...

, said its CoStar drug-coated stent failed to meet the main goal of a recent study pitting it against a competing product. Taxus Express 2. During the study, the CoStar failed to be proven at least as ...

Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) announcement that it is getting out of the drug-eluting stent business-- those are the tiny drug-covered tubes inserted into arteries to prevent strokes -- was blamed by many ...

Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis unit sued Abbott Laboratories for the fourth time this year over a patent on drug-coated heart stents, in a bid to stop the introduction of a competing device. The suit ...