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Patient Prompt, a company developing customized automated appointment reminder systems, conducted a six-year study examining more than one million internal reminders on the most effective practice protocol for making appointment reminder calls to patients. Here Claude Waknine, director of business…
The global market for vertebral compression fracture devices is predicted to reach $1.4 billion in the United States by 2015, according to an OfficialWire report.
Stefan Renaud, MD, a spine surgeon, joined OrthoCarolina's Gastonia, N.C., office location, according to a Business News report.
Medtronic will collaborate with Tissuemed, a company researching and manufacturing products that utilize adhesive polymer technology for medical applications, in order to distribute Obex NeuroFilm, according to a Medtronic news release.
HealthONE's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver opened the Youth Sports Medicine Institute, a facility designed to care for student athletes, according to a hospital news release.
DePuy Spine launched the COUGAR LS cage system as part of the MIS Lateral Platform designed specifically for the lateral approach to minimally invasive spinal fusion and the EXPEDIUM offset system for spinal surgery use, according to a company news…
The Rothman Institute, a Philadelphia-based orthopedic practice, is opening an office in Washington Township, N.J., according to a Citybizlist report.
OrthoPathways Group announced Bio-Aug FX, an instrument designed to extract stem cells from a patient's bone and then inject the stem cells in a different location, according to a company news release.
Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MS, director of minimally invasive spine surgery at Michigan Head & Spine Institute at the Providence Medical Center in Southfield, Mich., is a pioneer in minimally invasive spine surgery and recently treated a patient in June, helping…