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In 2015, Medtech was involved in merger and acquisition activity as well as several transactions over $1 billion in value.

A new discovery from researchers at the University of the West of England in Bristol, U.K., strengthens how bones bond to titanium orthopedic implants.

Spine surgeon Anthony Rinella, MD, travels to Colombia annually to treat adolescents with spinal conditions, according to The Homer Horizon.

Stryker's instrument division opened its Surgical Innovation Centre in Cork, Ireland, according to CareersPortal.

The Congressional Budget Office lowered its estimate from 21 million to 13 million for how many Americans will enroll in a healthcare plan purchased through the ACA marketplace, according to News Max Health.

Medicare costs for post-acute care more than doubled between 2001 and 2013, causing alarm in Congress, according to Roll Call.

Paradigm Spine, a New York-based developer of lumbar spinal stenosis treatment solutions, published "Evaluation of Decompression and Interlaminar Stabilization Compared with Decompression and Fusion for the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: 5-year Follow-up of a Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial."

Whether physicians find online reviews valid, more patients are using online surveys. Boston-based Nuance, a health tech company, found more than half of millennials said they used online reviews to find a doctor, according to Physicians Practice.

Israel-based ReWalk Robotics published the first case study of its ReWalk robotic exoskeleton in Spinal Cord Series and Cases, according to CNN Money. The study involved a patient who used the device for six months.

JPMorgan Chase restated Smith & Nephew stock's "neutral" rating, according to IRA Market Report.