MedEdge Holdings has named Craig Gaffin, former president of Smith+Nephew’s approximately $2 billion global orthopedics business, as partner, the Greenwich, Conn.-based surgical technology platform said in a July 16 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Gaffin brings more than 25…
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Aurora Spine and CornerLoc formed a strategic commercial alliance to expand physician access to minimally invasive spine and sacroiliac joint technologies across the U.S. The partnership combines Aurora Spine’s portfolio of minimally invasive spine technologies, manufacturing capabilities and regulatory resources…
Orthopedic medtech company DePuy Synthes acquired Expanding Innovations, a developer of expandable implants for spine surgery, expanding its position in the growing expandable interbody cage market. Expanding Innovations’ portfolio includes its X-PAC expandable interbody cages for transforaminal and lateral lumbar…
Medical device company Biotronik Neuro has acquired a portfolio of intellectual property related to spinal cord stimulation from Soin Neuroscience. The patents include technologies in spinal cord stimulation waveform design, adaptive programming, and the application of machine learning and AI…
Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital hosted the first U.S. surgery using Signus USA’s VertaConnect spinal implant system. The procedure was performed July 3 by spinal surgeon Ngoc-Lam Nguyen, MD. The VertaConnect system is an expandable transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion implant designed…
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When Paul McAfee, MD, plans a week of spine surgery, he does not do it at a console in the operating room. He does it on his phone. Every cut, every decompression, every screw trajectory, mapped from a kitchen table…
VB Spine has agreed to acquire the exclusive rights to Augmedics’ CT-Fluoro technology for spine applications, expanding its augmented reality navigation portfolio. The acquisition follows VB Spine’s April purchase of the exclusive rights to the Augmedics xvision spine system platform,…
The spine device industry spent the first half of 2026 selling surgeons on smaller, smarter and more autonomous tools. It spent that same six months fielding a harder question from the hospitals buying them: does any of it actually pay…
Spine surgeons see real upside in the newer biologics, from faster fusion to fewer failures and less hardware lucency, but the long-term evidence behind many of these products has not kept pace with their adoption. The osteobiologics category now accounts…
Elevation Spine’s Saber-C Anterior Cervical Fusion System has surpassed 5,000 implants. The system supports both spike and screw fixation options and offers seven total points of fixation, according to a June 25 news release from Elevation Spine. Saber-C is a…