Author: Alan Condon

San Diego-based surgical implant manufacturer, Xenco Medical, has launched the first interactive vending machine created for spine surgery implants and instruments, reports venturebeat.com.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based spinal-device manufacturer, ChoiceSpine, has been granted FDA clearance to market two new devices, to be used together or separately in cervical spinal fusions.

The Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force completed its yearlong session on May 10 and is due to submit its final report to Congress.

Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Alan Gross, MD, has emerged as a potential challenger against U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, reports local radio station KFSK.

Global medical technology company Smith & Nephew launched its Werewolf Flow 90 Wand with Flow-IQ Technology on May 13.

Naples, Fla.-based medical device company Catalyst OrthoScience has raised $12.7 million in an oversubscribed financing round led by Cincinnati-based growth equity firm River Cities Capital Funds.

Northfield Hospital and Clinics is leasing a new space in Faribault, Minn., for its Orthopedics and ENT clinic, reports KYMN Radio.

The University of New Mexico Center for Spine Health in Albuquerque is moving the UNM Spine Clinic to Lovelace Pain Clinic in a new partnership, reports HSC News.

A new treatment that allows surgeons to treat spina bifida prior to birth using scopes has been approved by the FDA, reports The Post Bulletin.

Spinal implant manufacturer Innovasis enrolled 150 patients in its HA PEEK Data Registry.