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Orthopedics and Spine

Mighty Oak Medical Gets FIREFLY Spinal Navigation Guides Cleared for Universal Usage

Mighty Oak Medical is a medical device incubator that continues to focus on novel surgical solutions to solve problems for patients and surgeons. Our goal is to make spinal surgery safer, faster, and more efficient, by offering more intuitive solutions to the existing...

December 6, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Jury Levels $1B Verdict Against J&J’s DePuy Ortho in Pinnacle Hip Bellwether

UPDATED Dec. 2, 2016, with quotes from plaintiff’s and defense attorneys and DePuy Orthopedics. A federal jury in Dallas today ordered Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopedics to pay more than $1 billion to 6 plaintiffs claiming to...

December 5, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Medtronic Launches Program to Reduce Costs of Total Joint Replacement

DALLAS — Medtronic announced the launch of Medtronic Orthopedic Solutions, a comprehensive program for total joint replacement episodes of care designed to reduce system costs and improve patient satisfaction and outcomes, according to a company press release. Medtronic Orthopedic Solutions...

November 15, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Ortho Startup Intellijoint Uses Optical Nav System for Better Hip Replacement Outcomes

Until recently, orthopedic surgeons have had few tools to position hip replacements, relying on experience and judgment. This year, Ontario, Canada-based Intellijoint Surgical introduced intellijoint HIP, an optical navigation system that has been approved in Canada and the U.S. Last...

November 10, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Surgical Simulation Training Tool Released for Knee Implants

Last week saw the public release of a collaborative project from Touch Surgery and Episurf Medical aimed at providing a surgical simulation training tool for Episurf Medical’s Episealer line of personalized knee resurfacing implants. Touch Surgery, based in London, UK, is...

October 31, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Zimmer Biomet Acquires Telerehabilitation Business RespondWell

Zimmer Biomet has acquired telerehabilitation startup RespondWell, according to a news release. The deal comes just a few months after the Warsaw, Indiana orthopedics device business rolled out the Signature Solutions program to hospitals to help them improve patient outcomes,...

October 28, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Swiss Surgeons Repair Knee Joints with Nose Cells

Swiss surgeons successfully used an experimental technique, which includes harvesting cells from the nasal septum, to repair damaged knee joints in patients. Two years later, these patients report improvements in pain and knee function, according to a study published Thursday...

October 26, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

Damaging Effects of Strokes on Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier

Stroke’s long-term effects on blood-spinal cord barrier can lead to ‘an increasingly toxic environment’ in spinal cord and ‘significant input on disease pathology’. A team of researchers at the University of South Florida investigating the short and long-term effects of...

October 5, 2016

Orthopedics and Spine

3D Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries 

If you shatter a bone in the future, a 3D printer and some special ink could be your best medicine. Researchers have created what they call “hyperelastic bone” that can be manufactured on demand and works almost as well as...

October 3, 2016