Joseph C. McCarthy, MD, was recently named the president of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy. He is the vice chairman of the department of orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and director of the Kaplan Center for Joint…
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Turning Point has announced the launch of the Turning Point 4.0, a core training machine developed in collaboration with University of Toledo bioengineers, athletic trainers, physical therapists and sports physicians.
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Patients with lower back pain frequently visit the emergency department and were three times more likely to receive diagnostic imaging tests in 2006 than they were four years earlier, according to a study published in Spine.
L.H. Medical Corp., a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based medical device manufacturer, is expanding the company's current location to be 60,000 square feet and adding 65 new employees, according to a company news release.
The average costs to earn FDA 510(k) clearance are $24 million, making up more than three-quarters of the cost to bring a medical device from the initial concept to the U.S. market, according to a Stanford University report titled "FDA…
Eugene Carragee, MD, has been chief of the division of spinal surgery at Stanford University Hospitals & Clinics in Redwood City, Calif. He also serves as medical director of the orthopedic spine center and service quality at Stanford.
Here are 50 orthopedic and spine surgery devices that were either launched by device companies or approved by the FDA within the past year. The devices are listed in alphabetical order and were gathered from the FDA 510(k) Clearance list…