VB Spine, the company formed from Stryker’s sold-off U.S. spine business, became an industry sponsor for the AAOS’ American Spine Registry, according to a Sept. 5 news release. The ASR is a collaboration between the American Association of Neurological Surgeons…
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Galion, Ohio-based Avita Health System has broken ground on a medical clinic to consolidate existing services, according to a Sept. 4 report from Crawford County Now. The 15,000-square-foot facility will be located in Bucyrus, Ohio, and will combine its existing…
Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based Mercy has added multiple orthopedic and spine practices in Farmington, Mo. Midwest Orthopedic Group and Midwest Pain and Spine Center have joined the health system, according to a Sept. 2 news release from Mercy. Renamed to Mercy…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is continuing to improve its registry program, integrating Epic’s cloud-based Community Registries. The platform will make it easier for health systems to participate in the American Joint Replacement Registry in 2026, which provides more…
Warsaw, Ind.-based OrthoPediatrics Corp. has entered into a distribution partnership with Canada-based MY01 to expand access to its continuous perfusion sensing technology platform for diagnosing limb perfusion injuries in children, according to a Sept. 5 system news release. The technology…
The Christus Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute in Beaumont, Texas, has launched a Saturday clinic to give student-athletes quicker access to care during football season, according to a Sept. 4 12NewsNow report. The clinic, open 8-11 a.m. through November, focuses…
Here are three updates in spine patent cases since April. 1. NuVasive infringed five patents from a spine surgeon, a jury determined. The jury ruled that screw assemblies from the Reline, Armada and VuePoint lines infringe combinations of five patents…
UNC Health Pardee’s Pardee NeuroSpine Associates opened a new location in Asheville, N.C. The Asheville location opened Sept. 3, and neurosurgeons Matthew Brown, MD, and Kelsey Walsh, MD, work there, according to a Sept. 4 news release shared with Becker’s.…
Fresno, Calif.-based Sierra Pacific Orthopedics added spine surgeon Devan Higginbotham, MD. Dr. Higginbotham’s expertise includes cervical disc replacement, spinal fusions, disc herniation treatment and revision surgery, according to a Sept. 4 news release shared with Becker’s. He earned his medical…
Medical device company CurvaFix has received 510(k) clearance for its CurvaFix Low Profile System for fixation of pelvic fractures. The new system has smaller head geometry for a lower-profile construct, implants with increased compression and extended implant lengths, according to…