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InVivo Therapeutics touts case study in 1st spine scaffold implant

JUNE 24, 2016 – BY BRAD PERRIELLO   InVivo Therapeutics (NSDQ:NVIV) this week touted a case study of the 1st implantation of its spinal scaffold, a bioresorbable device designed to help treat traumatic spinal cord injuries. The study, published in Neurosurgery, the journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, involved a 25-year-old man with an American Spinal Injury Assn. Grade […]

Zimmer’s LDR Deal Could Force Others to Grow a Dealmaking Spine

By: Sarah Pringle – June 24, 2016   Globus Medical (GMED) , K2M Group Holdings (KTWO) , NuVasive (NUVA) , Orthofix International (TK) , Xtant Medical Holdings (XTNT) and Alphatec (ATEC) are among spine companies that investors should keep tabs as prospective targets or buyers following Zimmer Biomet Holdings’ (ZBH) recent $1 billion deal for LDR Holding (LDRH) , according to […]

House Republicans unveil healthcare alternative to Obamacare

BY ERIC BEECH AND RICHARD COWAN Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled an alternative plan to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system on Wednesday, slamming Obamacare even as they aimed to keep some of its more popular provisions. Their proposal, part of broader effort by House Speaker Paul Ryan to offer a Republican agenda […]

Centinel Spine™ Granted Australian Clearance for STALIF L™ Minimally-Invasive, Lateral Integrated Interbody™ System

NEW YORK, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Centinel Spine, Inc., (Centinel Spine), the pioneer of the No-Profile, Integrated Interbody™ fusion device market, is granted clearance for STALIF L™ No-Profile, Lateral Lumbar Integrated Interbody system by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration. “This clearance expands our International No-Profile, Integrated Interbody market,” said John J. Viscogliosi, Chairman & CEO, […]

PONTiS Orthopaedics Launches Foot & Ankle Surgery Products

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 23, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via PRWEB – PONTiS Orthopaedics LLC (http://www.pontisorthopaedics.com), announced today the launch of the PONTiS Achilles System for the repair of injured Achilles tendons. This is the Company’s first product aimed at the foot & ankle surgery or sports medicine market. “The PONTiS proprietary multifilament stainless steel […]

In letter to Franken, FDA defends handling of Medtronic’s Infuse study

By Jim Spencer and Joe Carlson Star Tribune   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is defending a decision to accept more than 1,000 patient injury reports from Medtronic in summary form, years after they were supposed to be submitted. The FDA responded earlier this month to questions from U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota […]

Centric Medical™ Announces 510k Approval of Subtalar Arthroereisis Implant System for Foot and Ankle

June 23, 2016 HUNTLEY, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Centric Medical, a division of Life Spine, Inc., which focuses on developing surgical implants for the treatment of distal extremity pathology, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) marketing clearance to the Subtalar Arthroereisis Implant System for treating hyperpronation of the foot and stabilization […]

PinnacleHealth recognized for quality of spine surgery

PinnacleHealth has been recognized for high quality hospital care in Pennsylvania, according to the Spinal Fusions in Pennsylvania report by Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4). The report shares hospital-specific results for the 21,393 adult patients who underwent this procedure in a Pennsylvania hospital in 2014 and includes outcomes on in-hospital complications, readmissions, surgeon volume and charge analysis. Based in […]

Study: Metal-on-metal hips impede osteoblast formation

June 22, 2016 – BY BRAD PERRIELLO   A study of metal-on-metal hip implants found that the metal ions released when the parts of the cobalt-chromium-molybdenum devices rub against each other were able to penetrate into bone marrow, where they impeded the formation of bone-growing cells. Metal-on-metal hip implants came under intense scrutiny following the high-profile August 2010 recall of DePuy […]

Can This Spinal Fusion Technology Rise from the Ashes?

by Jamie Hartford – January 25, 2016   A group of investors led by a Denver patent attorney is working to bring new life to AxiaLIF, a spinal fusion technology hampered by coding woes and nearly torpedoed by scandal. AxiaLIF, short for axial lumbar interbody fusion, was designed to provide presacral access to the L5-S1 […]

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