TEN BEST NEW SPINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2018 (Orthopedics This Week) Augmedics Winning Technology: xvision™ Inventors and Engineers: Nissan Elimelech, Stuart Wolf, Elazar Gerland, Nessi Benishti, Tsur Herman, Ziv Amitai, Ron...
Read MoreZimmer Biomet launches clinical trial with Apple Watch (MassDevice) Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) said today that it’s launching a clinical trial using the Apple Watch to help hip and knee replacement patients that could enroll as...
Read MoreAUGMEDICS BEGINS SPINE NAVIGATION SYSTEM HUMAN TRIAL (Orthopedic This Week) Yokneam, Israel-based Augmedics has begun a first-in-human clinical trial of its xvision-spine (XVS) augmented-reality surgical navigation system at...
Read MoreAnkle arthroplasty – A review and summary of results from joint registries and recent studies (Bone and Joint UK) Total ankle arthroplasty offers a reasonable alternative to ankle arthrodesis in carefully selected...
Read MoreUPDATE! – MLM Biologics, Inc. is now approved with both the VA system (through...
Read MoreHARD SCIENCE BEHIND PRP CRAZE? (Orthopedics This Week) A team of researchers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wanted to see what hard science may exist behind the platelet rich plasma (PRP) craze. Their work, “Effect of...
Read MoreBUSINESS What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem (Wall Street Journal) For nearly a decade, Gundersen Health System’s hospital in La Crosse, Wis., boosted the price of knee-replacement surgery an...
Read More“There’s got to be a better way.” I have been to hundreds of surgeries worldwide. It always amazes me how much time people spend scurrying around trying to get the right products into the OR for a specific surgeon and procedure....
Read MoreSurgical Cement Heals Spinal Fractures with Magnetic, Targeted Drug Delivery (ODTMag) Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumors or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled...
Read MoreThree-dimensional imaging on the left shows how bone, in green, replaced the bioactive ceramic scaffold, in purple, over a six-month period. Microscope images on the right show progressively increasing degrees of bone, stained...
Read MoreACTIVE IMPLANTS WRAPS UP NUSURFACE TRIAL ENROLLMENT (Orthopedics This Week) Memphis, Tennessee-based Active Implants LLC has announced that the final patient has been treated in the two clinical trials evaluating its NUsurface...
Read MoreSmith & Nephew warns on first-gen Journey BCS knee revision rate (MassDevice) Smith & Nephew (NYSE:SNN) recently released an urgent field safety notice warning of issues with components in the first generation of its...
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TEN BEST NEW SPINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2018 (Orthopedics This Week) Augmedics Winning Technology: xvision™ Inventors and Engineers: Nissan Elimelech, Stuart Wolf, Elazar Gerland, Nessi Benishti, Tsur Herman, Ziv Amitai, Ron...
Shark Tank Meets Spine Start Up VerteCore! TRACEY ROMERO While most of the talk this summer has been about shark sightings and attacks along our beaches and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s race against the great white shark on...
If you want to build an ordinary orthopedic company, hire safe people. This hiring is easy. Just...
How medical-device CEOs can navigate digital disruption in healthcare (McKinsey & Company) Medical-device companies will need to reinvent themselves to stay competitive. Now’s the time to craft a strategy and scale a...