Smith & Nephew has officially denied having discussions on the sale of the company, according to a report from The New York Times.
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Cecil Risher, Jr., the former office manager of an orthopedic supply company in Brunswick, Ga., has pleaded guilty to his role in a fraud scheme that bilked more than $500,000 from Medicare, according to a Florida Times-Union report.
Wright Medical Group has received approval from the FDA to conduct an Investigational Device Exemption clinical study to investigate the use of INBONE total ankle replacement, according to a company news release.
Note: A previous version of this article erroneously refered to the NexGen LPS-Flex as a ACL repair system. We apologize for the error.Zimmer Holdings launched the Zimmer NexGen LPS-Flex mobile bearing knee with Prolong highly crosslinked polyethylene in the United…
TransCorp Spine, a Michigan-based spine device company, has signed a supply agreement with curasan, a Kleinostheim, Germany-based company, according to a curasan news release.
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Wright Medical Group has signed a distribution agreement with AlloSource for FUSIONFLEX Bone Matrix, a bone repair scaffold primarily used during foot and ankle fusions, according to a Wright Medical Group news release.
After a four-year patent infringement suit, Stryker has entered into a licensing agreement with TriMed, a Valencia, Calif.-based company that develops and manufactures orthopedic fixation devices, according to a TriMed news release.
Globus Medical, an Audubon, Pa.-based spinal implants manufacturer, has acquired Facet Solutions, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based developer of total facet arthroplasty devices, according to a Globus Medical news release.
Smith & Nephew shares jumped Monday after the news was released that the company had rejected an acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, according to a WallStreet.com report.
Symmetry Medical, a Warsaw, Ind.-based orthopedic and medical device manufacturer, named Thomas J. Sullivan as president and CEO of the company, according to a company news release.