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Medtronic buys Twin Cities start-up firm Responsive Orthopedics

By Joe Carlson Star Tribune-June 8, 2016 Medtronic PLC plans to jump into the market for dependable, lower-priced knee and hip implants next year, after acquiring a Twin Cities start-up company that specializes in selling devices to hospitals in government cost-cutting programs. During a presentation to investors Monday, Medtronic executives revealed that they had acquired […]

Xtant Medical and Pinnacle Spine Group Announce Distribution Agreement, Expanding the Availability of Innovative InFill® Lateral Fusion System

BELGRADE, Mont. and DALLAS, June 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xtant Medical Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT:XTNT), a leader in the development of regenerative medicine products and medical devices and Pinnacle Spine Group, LLC, a developer of innovative spinal fusion solutions, today announced a joint agreement to expand distribution of Pinnacle’s InFill® Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion […]

MẌ Orthopedics Receives FDA Clearance on the dynaMẌ™ Nitinol Compression Screw

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — MẌ Orthopedics, Corp. (MẌO), an orthopedic implant company focused on improving implant/bone fixation, is proud to announce the recent FDA clearance (K160427) of the dynaMẌ™ Nitinol Compression Screw. The dynaMẌ™ Nitinol Compression Screw utilizes the superelastic properties of Nitinol to provide higher levels of compression than contemporary bone screws.  During […]

Flexion Therapeutics Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock

BURLINGTON, Mass., June 07, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:FLXN) today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering, subject to market and other conditions, to issue and sell approximately $60.0 million of shares of its common stock. Flexion also expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to […]

Flower Orthopedics Launches The Flower E-Kit™ And IndicationCube™

HORSHAM, Pa., June 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Following the footsteps of the single-use and sterile FlowerCube™ concept, Flower Orthopedics announces the full market launch of the next generation in Ready-for-Surgery™ bone fixation solutions, the Flower E-Kit™. First of its kind, the innovative E-Kit™ contains all of the requisite cannulated and plating instruments in one multifunctional single-use instrument kit. Combined with the […]

MedShape Appoints Doug Kohrs and Dennis Stripe to Board of Directors

ATLANTA, June 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — MedShape, Inc., the industry leader in orthopaedic devices using advanced functional material technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Kohrs and Dennis Stripe to the Board of Directors. Both Mr. Stripe and Mr. Kohrs each bring over 30 years of experience across multiple facets of the medical device industry. “We are pleased […]

Minimally Invasive Hip Surgery Isn’t Always the Right Choice

By Chuck Green   FRIDAY, June 3, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Minimally invasive hip surgery may not always be the best option to relieve serious, ongoing hip pain, a new study suggests. Researchers found that more than one-third of people in their 60s who had the minimally invasive procedure — known as hip arthroscopy — […]

Zimmer props up spine device business with $1 billion LDR buy

(Reporting by Natalie Grover in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)   Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc (ZBH.N) agreed to buy fellow medical device maker LDR Holding Corp (LDRH.O) for about $1 billion deal to expand in the market for treating spine disorders. The $37 per share offer represents a premium of about 64 percent to LDR’s […]

NuVasive to Acquire Biotronic NeuroNetwork

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwired – June 06, 2016) – Enhances NuVasive’s Spine Service Line Partnership Offerings Doubles Size of NuVasive’s Service Platform with Complementary Geographic Footprint Expanded Platform Drives Greater Utilization and Integration of NuVasive’s Procedurally-Integrated Portfolio Immediately Accretive to Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings, Aligned to Operating and EBITDA Margin Expansion NuVasive, Inc. (NUVA), a leading medical […]

Vertera Spine Announces First Implantations of Porous PEEK COHERE Cervical Fusion Device

ATLANTA, June 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Vertera Spine, a developer of medical devices using advanced biomaterial technologies, today announced the first wave of implantations with the COHERE™ Cervical Interbody Fusion System. COHERE is Vertera Spine’s first device featuring the company’s patented porous PEEK (polyetherether ketone) Scoria™ biomaterial technology. While porous metal or metal-coated implants have found their way into […]

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