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Vivex Biomedical acquired assets and agreements of the University of Miami's Tissue Bank.

Several Salem, Mass.-based North Shore Medical Center physicians in the department of surgery were honored for their clinical excellence and professionalism, according to a Danvers Herald report.

A group of Yale students who developed a startup company for a feedback device attached to scoliosis braces just hit the big time, according to a Yale Entrepreneurial Institute report.

There have been several updates for orthopedic and spine device companies this past week, as financial reports are released and new products launched.

Medicaid patients are more likely to have in-hospital morbidity and use more resources than patients with other payers who undergo total joint arthroplasty, according to an article published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

A group of researchers examined the risk factors for adjacent segment disease following spinal fusion and non-fusion surgery and published their findings in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

New York-based Mount Sinai Health System named Michael Bronson, MD, chair of orthopedics for Mount Sinai Roosevelt and Mount Sinai St. Luke's, both located in New York.

Doug Freedberg, MD, and Gary Waslewski, MD, performed knee surgery on Arizona Cardinals' Carson Palmer, according to a Cardinals Blog report.

Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute in Kansas City, Mo., opened a neurosurgery clinic in Lee's Summit, Mo., according to a Lee's Summit Journal report.

IlluminOss Medical received conditional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of its Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System in treating impending and pathologic fractures.