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Startup device company FossiLabs is using a new form of 3D printing to create fully porous PEEK bone-like structures within implantable devices, Medical Plastics News reports.

Fernando Peña, MD, repaired the fractured right fibula of Minnesota Wild forward Jason Zucker, the Minneapolis StarTribune reports.

The next decade of orthopedics will be defined by technologies like 3D printing and robotic navigation systems.

Life Spine received FDA 510(k) clearance Dec. 23 to market its Titanium Stand-Alone ALIF System.

In a 129-patient study, Australian device company Anatomics evaluated the efficacy of its 3D-printed SpineBox kit in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedures, reports 3D Printing Industry.

Rothman Orthopaedic Institute and the Philadelphia 76ers penned a multiyear expansion of its marketing deal that initiated during the 2014-15 campaign, reports Philadelphia Business Journal.

Charles Preston, MD, of Muir Orthopedic Specialists in Walnut Creek, Calif., was elected Dec. 19 to the board of councilors for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

SeaSpine reported the 25,000th implantation of its NanoMetalene interbody device Dec. 18.

Sara Raiser, MD, joined the sports medicine team at Emory Johns Creek (Ga.) Hospital and the Emory Sports Medicine Complex in Brookhaven, Ga., the Gwinnett Daily Post reports.

An October study in The Spine Journal compared the in vivo characteristics of RTI Surgical's 3D-printed PEKK Tetrafuse 3D Technology with PEEK and titanium-coated PEEK.