Medtronic said it isn't required to provide patients with data collected from its implants, but the company has created a business unit to find new markets for the data it's collecting, according to Biz Journals.
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Spinal device company Precision Spine has entered an exclusive technology agreement with Stephen Cook, PhD, to develop spine implants with magnetic technology, according to Business Wire.
ISTO Technologies released a study featuring promising results for NuQu, a cell-based biological therapy for the treatment of low back pain.
Jack Kelley, MD, was recently named to the Branford (Conn.) Sports Hall of Fame, according to a Shoreline Times news report.
Marc F. Swiontkowski, MD, has been named editor of JBJS Case Connector, according to an AAOS Now report.
A new study out of the University of California, San Francisco, found that both low and high levels of physical activity can cause faster knee cartilage degeneration when compared with moderate activity levels, according to an Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics…
The U.S. arm of the VisionPro Sports Institute Holdings of England is planning a new Major League Soccer stadium in Tampa, Fla., that will include a sports medicine center, according to a Tampa Bay Online report.
Here are 10 recent partnerships and acquisitions for orthopedic and spine device companies. Sign up for our FREE Spine E-Weekly for more coverage like this sent to your inbox! Alphatec Spine closed its acquisition of certain assets of Phygen, which…
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco analyzed data on hospital readmissions following spine surgery and found numbers larger than expected or appropriate.
Hospital pharmacies are being forced to increase drug compounding efforts to meet demands after the closure of the New England Compounding Center and related compounding pharmacies linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak, according to WBUR Boston.