An analyst for RBC Capital Markets predicted that Stryker will have more business in 2010 due to increased demand for orthopedic surgeries, according to a report by the Seattle Times.
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More than two of three executives at medical device and in vitro diagnostics companies believe the business environment will be better for the industry next year than in 2009, according to new survey by Emergo Group.
An article in the in the December issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism reported that Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas were 27 percent more likely than urban recipients to have total knee or hip replacement surgeries, according to a release…
Applied Spine Technologies has been awarded a new patent titled "mounting mechanisms for pedicle screws and related assemblies,” according to a release from the company.
An article in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism reports that medical care for U.S. osteoarthritis patients costs $185.5 billion a year in 2007, according to a report in the Palm Beach Post.
El Paso (Texas) Orthopaedic Surgery Group recently celebrated its 70th anniversary, according to a report by El Paso, Inc.
Chris P. Bales, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at OrthoIndy, has joined the medical staff at 58-bed St. Vincent Clay Hospital in Brazil, Ind., according to a report by the Brazil Times.
The first outpatient clinic in the Rochester, N.Y., area for hip and knee arthritis has opened, according to a report by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
In a survey of surgeons commissioned by the American College of Surgeons, 8.9 percent of respondents said they were concerned they had made a "major medical error" in the past three months, according to an article on the survey in…
The 2,074-page Senate health reform bill, released Nov. 18, proposes a sweeping set of changes in the Medicare program, according to a report in Health Affairs.