Spinal Tech

Zimmer Biomet Executive Vice President and CFO Suketu Upadhyay was elected to Vertex's board of directors.

Viseon's MaxView intraoperative spinal imaging system surpassed 1,000 cases in the U.S., the company said May 18.

Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare added the Prodisc L artificial disc to its services.

CMS has granted its new technology add-on payment to SI-Bone's iFuse Bedrock Granite implant, which received the FDA's breakthrough device designation in November and is designed for sacroiliac fusion and sacropelvic fixation.

Zimmer Biomet appointed Paul Stellato as vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.

Stryker, Johnson & Johnson and Zimmer Biomet all saw first-quarter revenue increases. The devicemakers also saw overall growth in their spine and orthopedic segments year over year.

Synchron, a company developing brain implants, has begun clinical trials in humans ahead of Elon Musk's Neuralink.

Medtronic completed its acquisition of Intersect ENT.

Amplify Surgical recently completed the first training on the dualPortal endoscopic technique.

The first spine surgery in Connecticut using Augmedics' XVision system and the Airo TruCT Mobile Imaging System was performed at the UConn Health Spine Center in Farmington.