Author: Staff

Five spine and neurosurgeons in the news over the past week.

William Smith, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Tifton, Ga.-based Tift Regional Medical Center, performed a free joint replacement through Operation Walk USA 2019, the Valdosta Daily Times reports.

An appellate court said a 2012 lawsuit brought by three UPMC employees over allegedly unnecessary neurosurgery had merit and ordered it to be reinstated, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.

Stryker focused on growth this year with multiple acquisitions, while it continued integrating K2M, a spine-focused company it acquired in 2018 for $1.4 billion.

Zimmer Biomet spent the past year focused on remediation efforts at its Warsaw (Ind.) North Campus, enabling technology and preparing a pipeline of new technology for the next year.

Here are three key notes on spine and orthopedic device companies:

Emporia, Kan.-based Newman Regional Health will begin its partnership with Lawrence-based OrthoKansas in early 2020, local news provider KVOE reports.

The FDA cleared 14 spine-related devices in November.

Augmedics received FDA clearance for the xvision Spine System, which it launched in the U.S. on Dec. 23.

Fernando Peña, MD, repaired the fractured right fibula of Minnesota Wild forward Jason Zucker, the Minneapolis StarTribune reports.