Spinal Tech

Warsaw, Ind.-based Zimmer Holdings, a major force in medical orthopedic devices, is attracting renewed investor attention, according to a Daily Finance report.

Here are ten device companies that recently launched orthopedic products or received FDA approval for the products.

Here are 26 statistics about average implant cost for the top orthopedic procedure — arthroscopy, knee, surgical; with meniscectomy, medial OR lateral, including any meniscal shaving — by state, according to weekly data from Genascis. Data was unavailable for states…

Dublin, Calif.-based Carl Zeiss Meditec will present its OPMI VARIO 700 surgical microscope to an international public for the first time at EuroSpine 2010 in Vienna, Austria, according to a news release.

Plainsboro, N.J.-based Integra LifeSciences has introduced a new line of extended length and detachable Ruggles kerrison rongeurs, according to a news release.

Netherlands-based DSM Biomedical and Berkeley, Calif.-based DSM PTG announced an extension to its partnership with Spinelab, based in Zug, Switzerland, according to a news release.

Aesculap Implant Systems received FDA regulatory approval for its S4 Cervical Occipital Plating System, according to an Aesculap news release.

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.