On June 7, LDR stock price jumped 64 percent to $37.03, and NuVasive stock also spiked to an all-time high of $59.71, according to an Investor's Business Daily report.
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Flower Orthopedics launched the Flower E-Kit and the IndicationCube.
Belgrade, Mont.-based Xtant Medical and Dallas-based Pinnacle Spine Group have entered a distribution agreement for Pinnacle's InFill Lateral Fusion System.
Cambridge, Mass.-based InVivo Therapeutics named Christina Morrison to its board of directors.
Warsaw, Ind.-based Zimmer Biomet will acquire Austin, Texas-based LDR Holding for $1 billion.
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Surgeons implanted the first of Atlanta-based Vertera Spine's COHERE Cervical Interbody Fusion System.
Knoxville, Tenn.-based ChoiceSpine's titanium lumbar interbody fusion devices received FDA clearance.
NuVasive entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Biotronic NeuroNetwork for $98 million in cash.
Ronda E. Stryker, director of Stryker, sold 12,000 company shares on June 2, according to The Market Digest.
Throughout the United States, surgeons have used Stryker's SurgiCount Safety Sponges in an estimated 10 million surgeries in the past five years.