Aesculap Implant Systems received FDA regulatory approval for its S4 Cervical Occipital Plating System, according to an Aesculap news release.
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Alachua, Fla.-based RTI Biologics will pay a $3 million license fee for rights to use Athersys' Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cell technologies for the development of biologic implants for orthopedic applications, according to a Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News report.
Emory University orthopedic surgeon, Robert Bruce, MD, is offering patients a procedure that lengthens limbs using the Intramedullary Skeletal Kinetic Distractor, an implant approved by the FDA in 2001, according to a report by Michigan's WJRT-TV.
San Jose, Calif.-based SpineAlign Medical has enrolled its first patient in the European Observational Registry for the VerteLift System, according to a SpineAlign news release.
Symmetry Medical, a medical and orthopedic device and instruments manufacturer, is planning a $1.8 million expansion to create 160 jobs in the Lansing area, according to a Lansing State Journal report.
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The Institute for Health Technology Studies has awarded grants to research teams at Northwestern University in Chicago and Duke University in Durham, N.C., totaling $830,000, according to an InHealth news release.
Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) — $7.0 billion in revenues. Products from Stryker's Orthopaedic Implants division include artificial joints, spinal rods and screws, bone cement, artificial vertebral discs and OP-1, a biological product to grow bone. In April, the company manufactured…
Eden Spine, a medical device company focused on spinal technologies, received a U.S. patent for the PERFX-2, a posterior dynamic stabilization system, according to a company news release.
Amedica, a spine and total joint implant developing company, completed a $30 million financing for expansion, mergers, acquisitions and marketing support, according to a company news release.
Aesculap launched a new generation of the Acculan 3Ti surgical motor system used in orthopedics, traumatology and cardiothoracic surgery, according to a company news release.