Spinal Tech

Medicrea gained FDA clearance for its UNiD IB3D patient-matched interbody cages, the device company announced Feb. 11.

Tenon Medical recently completed the first phase of its clinical trial for the Catamaran sacroiliac joint fixation system.

Inspan's interspinous fixation device recently demonstrated positive results in a five-year follow-up study of outpatient L4-L5 lumbar interspinous fixation for degenerative spinal stenosis.

Medtronic and its foundation pledged to donate about $1.2 million to international coronavirus relief efforts, the organization announced Feb. 10.

The spine surgery market continues to grow, although revenue leaders Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson both experienced a slight decline in 2019, according to a report from The Spine Market Group. 

The FDA cleared 15 spine related devices in January.

The past quarter has been varied for orthopedic and spine companies, with some reporting spine sales down slightly while others had significant growth.

Here are four spine and orthopedic device company acquisitions announced or completed in the past month.

Aurora Spine closed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement offering raising approximately $644,891 (858,000 Canadian dollars).

SeaSpine partnered with 7D Surgical Feb. 7 to distribute the company's Machine-Vision Image Guided Surgery system for spine and cranial surgery.