WARMINSTER, PA (PRWEB) August 01, 2013–After manufacturing CNC-machined equipment for various industries, MK Precision, a leading medical device contract manufacturer, discovered its talent for making flawless medical equipment with Swiss lathes, 5-axis mills and wire EDMs. Recently, the company released a detailed video about its in-house operations and dedication to excellence as CNC specialists.The MK […]
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3D Printing Spinal Implants?
August 13, 2013 |A new era of orthopedic surgery is taking shape at Peking University. Armed with an Electron Beam Melting (EBM) 3D printer, doctors are able to create titanium implants that fit perfectly with a patient’s body.Over the course of the last four years, Dr. Liu Zhongjun has been using EBM 3D printing to […]
The US Spinal Implant Market Will Grow Modestly To Reach $6.6 Billion by 2021
TORONTO, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, spinal nonfusion volumes will grow rapidly over the forecast period due to an accumulation of positive clinical evidence and the emergence of new segments (including annulus repair, facet arthroplasty and nuclear disc prostheses) within this […]
RQMIS helps a Chinese based Orthopedic Company establish German Operations and gain EN/ISO13485: 2012 Certification
RQMIS helps a Chinese based Orthopedic Company establish German Operations and gain EN/ISO13485: 2012 Certification (Class I, IIa, IIb, and III Devices including implantable devices).The project timeline was, 6 months to establish and implement Quality System and 1st OEM vendor Contract and 2 months for audit and receipt of certification. Customer Objectives– Establish Company in […]
Vertebral Technologies, Inc. Crosses 3,000 Implant Milestone for InterFuse®
Minnetonka, MN (PRWEB) August 09, 2013–Vertebral Technologies, Inc. (VTI), an industry leader in innovative spinal fusion implants, announced today that more than 3,000 InterFuse® interbody fusion devices have been implanted, including the InterFuse S™ and the InterFuse T™. Both devices use the company’s revolutionary interlocking modular technology to implant a large ALIF-sized implant through a […]
Stryker Interventional Spine Launches Two New Products
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Stryker Interventional Spine announced the clearance of 510(k)s for two additional products to its portfolio. Venom RF Cannula and Venom Electrode are designed to provide an effective and minimally invasive treatment for facet joint pain. The launch of the 11g iVAS Balloon System, one of the least invasive […]
How hip implant ‘cartel’ helps Northern Indiana
August 05, 2013,(chicagobusiness.com)–The New York Times this weekend published a long feature on medical tourismthat is both a cautionary tale on medical spending as well as a demonstration of the huge economic impact that medical manufacturers can have in the towns they’re based — including one in Indiana.The Northern Indiana town of Warsaw (pop. 14,000) is […]
J&J pleased to have Chinese court dispute over
BEIJING (AP) — Health care giant Johnson and Johnson says it is pleased to put a legal dispute behind it after a Chinese court ordered it to pay compensation to a former distributor under an anti-monopoly law.Thursday’s ruling said Johnson & Johnson was guilty of “vertical monopoly” for setting minimum prices its distributors charged for […]
Medtronic notifies patients of lost documents
Aug 1,2013 (Pioneerpress.com)–Medtronic has notified more than 2,500 patients about a potential privacy breach involving health information that’s protected by federal law.As a precaution, the Fridley-based medical device company sent letters to patients in early July about the situation and also arranged for patients to receive identity protection services, said Cindy Resman, a Medtronic spokeswoman, […]
Globus Medical Reports 2013 Second Quarter Results
AUDUBON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Globus Medical, Inc. (NYSE:GMED), a leading musculoskeletal implant manufacturer, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013.David Paul, Chairman and CEO commented, “We are very pleased with our performance this quarter and for the first half of 2013. Our revenue growth and profitability margins remain at industry leading levels, […]
Italy’s Sintea Plustek Launches New Spinal Implant
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Sintea Plustek S.r.l., based in Milan, Italy, a leading supplier of minimally invasive spinal implants and delivery systems, has launched the new DOMINO cervical fusion cage implant made of Zeniva® polyetheretherketone (PEEK) resin from Solvay Specialty Polymers. The fusion cage implant – available in Italy and throughout Europe – has earned the […]
Emergent and DiFusion Form Strategic Partnership to Take CleanFuze™ Antimicrobial Implants to Market
Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 31, 2013–Emergent Technologies, Inc., a leading innovation solutions company, and DiFusion Technologies, Inc., a pioneering orthobiologics company, announced today a strategic partnership in which Emergent will assist DiFusion in the launch of its proprietary suite of CleanFuze antimicrobial orthobiologic implants.CleanFuze implants use DiFusion’s core technology, a novel biomaterial that resists infection […]
Company develops device to help surgeons determine spine surgery success
July 30, 2013,Legal News Reporter–According to statistics from the American Chiropractic Association, 31 million Americans experience low-back pain at some point or another. When the pain becomes severe and chronic many people look to surgery to solve their problems. The trouble is, it does not always work.In fact during the 2011 P&M Corporate Finance Spine […]
For doctors and med firms, a new era of disclosure
WASHINGTON ,July 28, 2013 (Star Tribune)– The nation’s medical device makers and drug companies will begin collecting this week what is expected to become a massive stockpile of data on their financial relationships with doctors, researchers and teaching hospitals.A new federal disclosure law mandates that an array of pharmaceutical and medical manufacturers report payments to physicians, […]
Vexim : Sharp Increase in Sales 2013
TOULOUSE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 22, 2013– VEXIM (Paris:ALVXM), a medical device company specializing in the minimally-invasive treatment of vertebral fractures, today announces its consolidated sales for the half year to June 30(th) 2013.The acceleration in VEXIM’s growth continued strongly over the 1(st) half of 2013, with sales substantially more than doubling (+133%) to EUR2.5 million. This […]
Aurora Spine Receives CE Marking
Carlsbad, CA- Aurora Spine has now received the CE Mark Approval for its ZIP™ MIS Interspinous Fusion System. The CE mark designation will allow the ZIP™ MIS system to be sold in the European Union and other countries that recognize or require this approval. Aurora Spine’s product officially complies with the applicable safety legislation in […]
Stryker pulls spinal devices off the shelves following failure reports
July 23, 2013 (massdevice.com) Australia sounded the alarm on Stryker’s (NYSE:SYK) Oasys Midline Occipital Plate, sending a warning to patients and surgeons that the spine stabilization device might break after surgery.Stryker’s spinal stabilization plate is part of the Oasys spinal surgery system. Regulators learned that after surgery the pin connecting to the plate body can […]
At Medtronic, efforts by CEO Ishrak appear to be paying off
ST. PAUL, Martin Moylan, Minnesota Public Radio— Two years ago, when Omar Ishrak took over as CEO of Medtronic, the medical device manufacturer was struggling. The company had been plagued by ethics investigations, a weak stock price, sagging sales for pacemakers and other key products, and a lack of hot new devices to boost sales.At […]
ViVex Biomedical raising $5.5M to develop implant technology
Jul 19, 2013 /Atlanta Business Chronicle/- A biomedical startup that focuses on implant technology and stem cell therapies is raising $5.5 million, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission filing.Vivex Biomedical Inc., is developing implant technology to help stimulate bone regrowth. Vivex has also licensed a highly adaptive adult stem cell line, known as MIAMI […]
Medtronic to promote osteoporosis treatment
Medtronic’s Interventional Spine division has signed a three-year agreement to promote Amgen’s Prolia (denosumab) to orthopedic and spine specialists in the US.Prolia is approved in the US to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture and to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture.Administered as a single […]
ulrich medical USA® Releases New Spinal Implant for U.S. Market
ST. LOUIS, July 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — ulrich medical USA, Inc., today announced the U.S. market release of the uCerv Interbody System which is a spinal implant device used for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) surgical procedures (C2-C7).The uCerv System consists of trapezoidal shaped implants that are available in a parallel or lordotic configuration […]
Spinal Elements®, Inc. Announces Presentation of Data Relative to Porous Titanium Coating on PEEK
CARLSBAD, Calif., July, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Spinal Elements, a spine technology company, today announced that spine surgeon Scott H. Kitchel, MD of Eugene, Oregon recently presented data on the company’s Ti-Bond® porous titanium coated polyetheretherketone (PEEK) interbody devices at the Spine Technology and Educational Group meeting held June 20-22in Los Cabos, Mexico.Spinal Element’s Ti-Bond coating […]
Aesculap Implant Systems Launches Quintex(TM) Cervical Plating System
CENTER VALLEY, PA–(Marketwired – July, 2013) – Aesculap Implant Systems announced today the availability of the new Quintex Anterior Cervical Plating System, today’s most versatile system for use in ACDF procedures at multiple levels from C2-T1. Quintex was designed to address all plating ideologies and offers construct options ranging from fully rigid to dynamic, including […]
Eden Spine’s Spinal Technologies Approved in Venezuela
Altamonte Springs, FL, July 11, 2013 –(PR.com)– Eden Spine announced today that the WELLEXTM Dynamic Interspinous Technology, the GIZATM Vertebral Body Replacement and the PERFX-2TM Pedicle Screw System have received regulatory approval in Venezuela. All three high quality lead generation spinal implants are made in France and Switzerland. Already approved in multiple markets around the […]
Biomet Swings to 4th-Quarter Profit on Stronger Revenue, Absence of Charge
Biomet Inc. swung to a fiscal fourth-quarter profit as the medical-device maker logged stronger sales and benefited from comparison with a year-ago quarter that was weighed down by a large write-down.Though privately held, Biomet’s results are closely watched because the maker of orthopedic medical devices reports earlier than larger competitors–like Zimmer Holdings Inc. (ZMH), Stryker […]
Medtronic Announces New Screw for Market-Leading CD HORIZON® SOLERA® Spinal System
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – July 11, 2013 – Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the global market introduction of the CD HORIZON® SOLERA® Spinal System Sagittal Adjusting Screw (SAS) which may be used in the surgical correction of complex spinal pathologies. The SAS features a fixed head made of cobalt chrome that contains a sliding saddle. This […]
Zimmer Announces Distribution Of APEX Spine System
MINNEAPOLIS, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Spine, Inc. today announced that the Company has begun distribution of the APEX Spine System, a comprehensive set of implants and instruments designed to safely and effectively correct a broad range of spinal deformities, as well as complex and degenerative spinal diseases. Under the terms of a long-term […]