Ken Yamada on March 19 was appointed president and CEO of AxioMed, a spine device and subsidiary of private investment holding company KICVentures.
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NuVasive issued an urgent field safety notice Feb. 13 recalling its Magec System Model X rods for patients with early onset scoliosis.
Medtronic will double its global ventilator production to support the needs of patients and health systems amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Precision Spine on March 19 launched the SureLOK MIS 3L percutaneous screw system.
Ezriel Kornel, MD, director of The Orthopedic and Spine Institute at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., has been self-isolating since March 13 when he tested positive for COVID-19, reports lohud, an affiliate of The USA Today Network.
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Sterile packaging with intraoperative guards can help spine and orthopedic device-makers avoid bacterial cross-contamination, according to Aakash Agarwal, PhD, director of research and clinical affairs for Spinal Balance. Guardian Medical is a joint venture between Plastic Technologies and Spinal Balance,…
Shawn Price, MD, on March 18 opened Fortis Orthopaedic & Sarcoma Group in Louisville, Ky., according to PR Leap.
After CMS Administrator Seema Verma urged hospitals to cancel elective surgeries, many did and have shifted resources to treating COVID-19 patients.
Zimmer Biomet on March 10 issued an urgent field safety notice to European hospitals requesting the removal of the company's StageOne and StageOne Select bone cement spacer molds.
In November 2018, NuVasive appointed J. Christopher Barry to succeed Gregory Lucier as CEO.