Spinal Tech

Medtronic has launched a new procedure to allow for lateral access to the L5-S1 disc space.

Providence Medical Technology will release its two-year follow-up data on the DTRAX Facet System this week at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker reported net earnings of $103 million for the third quarter, which is down dramatically from $353 million during the same period last year.

Paris and San Francisco-based SpineGuard reported a net loss of $1.65 million for the last six months of 2013, a $300,000 improvement over the same period last year.

Wright Medical Group, based in Memphis, Tenn., will acquire Biotech International for $75 million, according to a Memphis Business Journal report.

Integra LifeSciences has launched its Integra Proximal Humeral Fracture Plate System in the U.S.

Disrupting the status quo can be an unpredictable, even threatening endeavor for leaders in any business. Nowhere is it more true and prevalent than in healthcare today, and in the medical device sector in particular.

NuVasive recently launched the Bendini Spinal Rod Bending System and the XLIF Decade Plate.

DePuy Synthes has filed a lawsuit against Globus Medical, accusing three former DePuy sales representatives of breaking contract agreements by working for Globus, according to a Mass Device report.

Blue Belt Technologies has sold its first Navio orthopedic surgical system to an ambulatory surgery center, Thomas Jefferson Riverview Surgical Center at Navy Yard in Philadelphia.