Spinal Tech

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.

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.

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.