Carlsbad, Calif.-based Alphatec Holdings CEO Terry Rich purchased shares of the company's stock, according to Sports Perspectives and Market News.
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FDA clears 22 spine-related devices in November 2016.
EOS imaging is improving the treatment experience for surgeons and patients through their 2D/3D imaging technology and imaged-based solutions for musculoskeletal pathologies and orthopedic surgical care.
Rehovot, Israel-based Carevature Medical reported U.S. surgeons are experiencing positive outcomes using the company's Dreal Powered and Curved Spinal decompression system.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and Germany-based Siemens Healthcare researchers created an algorithm to automatically label images of vertebrae during spine surgeries. The algorithm, "LevelCheck," pinpoints individual vertebrae in real time during spine surgery.
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The state of Michigan is offering a $1 million economic development support package to Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The future of the global joint repair market is in sports medicine, point-of-care tests and robotic assisted surgeries, according to a report from P&S Market Research.
Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker is extending the range of its settlement program to include patients who underwent procedures to remove the recalled implants since Nov. 3, 2014.
Salt Lake City-based Amedica Corp. reported positive study results, demonstrating rapid bone growth into porous silicon nitride.
Cambridge, Mass.-based InVivo Therapeutics enrolled a new patient into its INSPIRE study, which tests the Neuro-Spinal Scaffold's efficacy and safety for complete thoracic AIS A spinal cord injury.