Globus Medical entered the European market with its spine surgical robot, Excelsius GPS.
Spinal Tech
Aakash Agarwal, PhD, petitioned the FDA to stop approving the reprocessing of pedicle screws and other implantable orthopedic devices and clearing reusable implantable orthopedic devices.
IntraFuse received a U.S. patent for its FlexThread Intramedullary Fracture Fixation system.
SpineGuard teamed up with Carnot Interfaces to combine SpineGuard's DSG technology with surgical robots.
With 240 centers across 30 countries using Ekso Bionic's EskoGT exoskeleton technology, the company reported patients who suffered from stroke and spinal cord injuries have taken 100 million steps.
Stryker and Zimmer Biomet are heading back to the federal appeals court over the scope of damages awarded in an eight-year long patent infringement case, according to Bloomberg Law.
Biomech Paonan is a spinal device company.
The global orthopedic trauma devices market is expected to reach $9.4 billion by 2020, growing at a 7.2 percent compound annual growth rate, according to a Persistence Market Research report.
Here are 15 key notes from orthopedic and spine device companies in the past week.
Panther Orthopedics' PUMA System was successfully used in an orthopedic fixation procedure.
