Spinal Tech

VG Innovations has received a United States patent for the VerteLoc technology.

Stryker has co-founded a coalition of 17 healthcare suppliers with Practice Greenhealth to promote environmentally-friendly preferable healthcare products.

Surgical device company Misonix has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Neuro Dynamics for distribution of the company's SonaStar Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator and the BoneScalpel Ultrasonic Bone Cutter.

DJO Global reported net sales of $278.9 million and net loss of $29 million during the first quarter of 2012.

St. Helena (Calif.) Hospital has opened the Surgical Learning Institute, Napa Valley, and its first program was held last month to instruct surgeons on the MAKOplasty robotic technology for orthopedic procedures.

Zimmer reported $1.4 billion in first quarter net sales, a 2.2 percent increase over the same period last year.

Orthofix's first quarter net sales were reported at $143.1 million, a 3 percent growth over the same period last year, with spine products net sales up 3 percent to $75 million and orthopedics up 1 percent to $41 million.

The CEO of the Spine Network of California, Trudy Maurer, is facing criminal charges filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office that she significantly overbilled taxpayers for the cost of government employees' spinal implants, according to a Mercury…

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A new CEO has taken the reigns at Johnson & Johnson, and he plans major changes for the company, according to a New York Times report.