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Zimmer Biomet Announces Early Termination of HSR Waiting Period

WARSAW, Ind., June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH) (“Zimmer Biomet”) today announced the early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, for its offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of LDR Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: LDRH) (“LDR”). As previously announced, […]

Zimmer Biomet Celebrates Four Decades of Excellence with the 40th Anniversary of the Oxford® Partial Knee System

WARSAW, Ind., June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, is pleased to announce the 40th anniversary of the Oxford® Partial Knee System, the most widely used and clinically proven1 partial knee replacement system in the world.  A partial knee replacement is a treatment for […]

Cow cartilage used for 3D printing in step forward that could make ‘patches’ for worn joints

Andrew Griffin   Cow cartilage has been printed out by scientists in a move that could fix worn joints. The special 3D printing technique could one day be used to print out special patches that will help people with worn joints. To create the organic ink, researchers grew cells in thin tubes that were just […]

A double-edged sword: What makes doctors great also drives burnout

By AMA staff writer Troy Parks – 6/21/2016   A physician burnout expert from the Mayo Clinic explained earlier this month at the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting how physicians in the current health care system often have an intrinsic risk of burnout. Learn about the role that the “physician personality” can play in burnout and ways […]

Will there ever be a ‘Joan’s Law?’

By Pamela K. Browne – June 24, 2016   The legacy of the late comedienne Joan Rivers may be so much more than amusing memories and auctioned personal items if her daughter, Melissa, can help push through new laws governing oversight of outpatient surgical clinics. Joan Rivers died Sept. 4, 2014, seven days after slipping into a […]

Safe Orthopaedics Expands into Latin America

June 27, 2016   SAFE ORTHOPAEDICS (Paris:SAFOR) (FR0012452746 – SAFOR), a company offering innovative ranges of sterile implants combined with their single-use instruments, is today announcing its expansion into Latin America under distribution agreements covering Mexico and Chile, two fast-growing markets. After securing regulatory marketing approvals in Australia and New Zealand in April, Safe Orthopaedics […]

NuVasive, Inc. (NUVA) – Product Pipeline Analysis, Update and Research: Radiant Insights

San Francisco, June 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NuVasive, Inc. (NuVasive) is a medical device company which offers an extensive selection of minimally-disruptive surgical products and procedurally-integrated solutions for spine. The company’s product portfolio encompasses surgical procedures including transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF); posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF); posterior cervical fusion; anterior cervical discectomy and […]

Three patients discuss experience with Medicrea’s UNiD rods for Scoliosis Awareness Month

Medicrea has recently partnered with Children’s Hospital (New Orleans, USA) orthopaedic surgeon, Andrew G King, to speak on his experience using Medicrea’s UNiD rods for customised spinal surgeries. This comes shortly after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the rod for use in the cervical spine, and the recent milestone of 700 […]

Brexit and the CE Mark – implications for European regulation of medical devices

Arthur Brandwood – June 26, 2016   The questions are coming thick and fast about the implications of the UK’s decision to exit the European Union for the CE marking of medical devices and IVDs (and a whole lot of other things too – but let’s just stick to devices and IVDs for now).  ‘Brexit’ raises issues […]

A new bio-ink for 3D printing with stem cells

23 June 2016   Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed a new kind of bio-ink, which could eventually allow the production of complex tissues for surgical implants. The new stem cell-containing bio ink allows 3D printing of living tissue, known as bio-printing. The new bio-ink contains two different polymer components: a natural polymer […]

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