Little mesh tubes known as stents are inserted in the blocked arteries of over 1 million in the US who are affected by heart attacks and other heart conditions, to prop them open. The procedure has saved many lives, but it still has potentially deadly downsides. Now scientists are reporting in the ACS journal iLangmuir/i that coating stents with vitamin C could lower the implants' risks even further. Eagappanath Thiruppathi and Gopinath Mani note that today's ...
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