Smith & Nephew has launched its TRIGEN Low-Profile Screw.
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Mazor Robotics has finalized the financing agreement that it entered into in August, securing the first tranche of $7.5 million from a group of institutional and accredited investors led by Oracle Investment Management.
Implantate AG, a global medical device company focused on trauma products and biomaterials for the orthopedic market, has extended the existing contracts of their three executive board members for another three years until the end of the financial year 2015.
Integra LifeSciences has received FDA approval for expanded indication for use of the Integra Vu aPOD Prime Intervertebral Body Fusion Device in anterior lumbar interbody fusion procedures.
Medtronic has introduced the ACD Instrument Set, a set of instruments that can be used to insert the BRYAN Cervical Disc.
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A new company — SkelRegen — has formed to create musculoskeletal solutions in orthopedics, according to a Herald report.
Globus Medical has received FDA premarket approval for the SECURE-C Cervical Artificial Disc.
The Food and Drug Administration granted 37 orthopedic- and spine-related device clearances in September.
Study results presented at the 28th Annual Orthopaedic Trauma Association meeting suggest generic implants can lead to cost savings while maintaining patient outcomes.
Edward Khalfayan, MD, orthopedic surgeon at OPA Ortho in Seattle and medical director/team physician for the Seattle Mariners, performed surgery on second baseman Dustin Ackley and shortstop Brendan Ryan, according to an MLB report.