The FDA cleared Lyon, France-based Medicrea's PASS XS posterior fixation and LigaPASS XS band connector components.
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Brad Prybis, MD, of Carrollton (Ga.) Orthopaedic Clinic, performed the first anterior cervical fusion using Meditech's CURE Anterior Cervical Plate.
Thomas B. Scully, MD, of Northwest NeuroSpecialists in Tucson, Ariz., became the first surgeon to implant Life Spine's PRO-LINK Ti Stand-Alone Cervical Spacer System.
Alan Van Norman, MD, will begin seeing patients once a month at Sanford Health West Dickinson (N.D.) Clinic, on Nov. 8.
Philadelphia-based National Disease Research Interchange is hosting a symposium for leaders in brain injury, neurological disease and pain on Nov. 18.
In September, there was a stark decrease in compromised health records, with that figure dropping from 8.8 million records breached in August to 250,000 breached records last month, according to SC Magazine.
Earlier this week, Pfizer said it will sell a biosimilar version of Johnson & Johnson's Remicade, a rheumatoid arthritis treatment, causing investors to worry about the competition's impact on Johnson & Johnson's sales, according to STAT.
Last year, several hospitals came under fire after news broke over hospitals raising prices for patients by 1,000 percent. However, a recent study showed hospitals continued to increase prices this year, despite the negative publicity, according to The Washington Post.
Here are 17 key notes on orthopedic and spine device companies over the past week.
Mats Agren, MD, is a board certified orthopedic spine surgeon at Falmouth (Neb.) Orthopaedic Center.