Medical device manufacturer Synthes USA has filed a civil action claim against a former employee, saying the man violated his contract, according to The Pennsylvania Record.
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Winter Park, Fla.-based Ascendx Spine received FDA approval for its vertebral compression fracture treatment device, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
As of Jan. 1, all sales on medical devices will be taxed an additional 2.3 percent, as the federal government looks to make $20 billion in 10 years to pay for programs within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
David Chao, MD, has sued Smith & Nephew for $2.2 million after performing a failed hip surgery using the company's implant, according to a Mass Device report.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication for metal-on-metal implants.
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Stryker has offered to buy Trauson Holdings in China for $764 million in cash, according to Bloomberg.
Biomet's net sales increased by 9 percent to $790.1 million in the second quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, compared with $725.1 million during the second quarter of last year.
Orthopedic surgeons R. Alexander Creighton, MD, of the University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill and Clifford Wheeless, MD, at Duke Raleigh Hospital, have performed joint reconstructions using new instrumentation and ceramic bone fillers from KARL STORZ, according…
Mahr Federal will be showing its MarSurf XR 1 mobile surface measuring system at the MD&M West February Conference, according to Measurement Devices.
In its preliminary unaudited fourth quarter revenue report, lumbar spine device company TranS1 saw $4.1 million in revenue, a 3 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2011.