Spinal Tech

Australia's Department of Health and Aging's Therapeutic Goods Administration issued a hazard alert for Stryker Australia's Oasys Midline Occipital Plate, a device used for spine fusion stabilization.

IMRIS's VISIUS iCT ceiling-mounted intraoperative computed tomography device received FDA 510(k) clearance.

Donald Gajewski, MD, is developing the IDEO device for foot and leg problems at the Center for Intrepid, part of Brooke Army Medical Center, in Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Here are eight recent orthopedic and spine device launches and releases.

Biomet to Close Swiss Device Plant With 230 Employees Warsaw, Ind.-based Biomet is downsizing its operations and cutting a Swiss manufacturing facility with 230 workers.

Data released from the Canadian Institutes for Health Information show five-year revision rates for total hip replacement procedures to be low, though metal-on-metal implants bring slightly higher rates, according to The Windsor Star.

Stryker's net earnings dropped 34.5 percent in the second quarter, despite increased sales over the same period last year.

The 2.3 percent medical device excise tax has cost the industry an estimated $1 billion since going into effect Jan. 1, according to a Mass Device report.

St. Louis-based ulrich medical released the uCerv Interbody System for U.S. markets.

Medtronic has entered into an agreement with Amgen to promote the Prolia device to spine specialists through Medtronic's Interventional Spine division.