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WHEATON, Ill., March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Safety in Spine Surgery Project (S3P) has announced that the First Annual Safety in Spine Surgery month will take place in April of 2021. The goal of this project is to improve safety in spine surgery by sharing guidelines, techniques, and protocols that make care better, and to share lessons […]

WARSAW, Ind., March 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OrthoPediatrics Corp. (“OrthoPediatrics”) (NASDAQ: KIDS), a company exclusively focused on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics, today announced that as of March 2021, it estimates over 200,000 children with orthopedic conditions have been treated with OP products. “For over 14 years, OrthoPediatrics has been able to provide […]

Spineart is proud to announce the first surgeries involving PERLA® TL Cortical, the new Posterior Thoraco-lumbar Fixation System. On January 19th, the first world-wide surgery with the new PERLA® TL Cortical system was a one-level fusion from L4 to L5, performed by Dr. Jeroen Ceuppens at AZ Groeninge in Kortrij, Belgium. A week later, on January 25th, the first PERLA® TL Cortical case in the […]

Carlsbad, CA, March 3, 2021 – Spinal Elements, a spine technology company, today announced the relaunch and first clinical use of the Luna® XD multi-expandable lumbar interbody fusion device and Orbit® articulating discectomy system. A minimally-invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery was performed with the devices by Richard G. Fessler, M.D., Ph.D of Rush University Medical […]

PORTLAND, MAINE (PRWEB) MARCH 03, 2021 ALM Ortho, Inc, a technology company specializing in the development of 3D printed titanium orthopedic implants, announced the close of its seed round with investment from Paul DeJuliis, a Private Equity Investor in healthcare and technology start-ups. The funds will be deployed to support submission for FDA 510(K) clearance of […]

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Spineart USA Inc. announced today that clinical principal investigator, Dr. Domagoj Coric at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates in Charlotte NC, performed the first surgery in the two-level U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Clinical Trial of the BAGUERA®C Cervical Disc Prosthesis. The BAGUERA®C implant is an investigational device designed to reconstruct the cervical disc. The […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UT, March 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SINTX Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SINT) (“SINTX” or the “Company”) (www.sintx.com), an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of silicon nitride ceramic, announced its FDA submission of a Master Access File (MAF) for a new Silicon Nitride – Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) composite material (SN-PEEK). The MAF can be referenced […]

These days, most companies are publishing their 2020 results. In this article, we have collected all of them to measure the impact of Covid on all of them. It has not been easy as each company measures and presents the spine results differently. According to Research and Markets, the global market for the Spine in […]

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Empirical Spine, Inc., maker of the LimiFlex™ Paraspinous Tension Band, today announced initiation of the PMA process for FDA review and approval of the use of the LimiFlex with a decompression for patients suffering from degenerative spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis. The Pivotal Trial supporting the PMA compares outcomes of […]

Axis Spine Technologies, a UK-based MedTech startup, closed a £2.2m funding round.  The round was led by ACF Investors’ Delta Fund with follow-on investment from Mercia’s EIS funds. An angel syndicate led by Simon Cartmell, who has more than 40 years pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech experience, participated.  The funding will be used to support the […]

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Nexus Spine, a developer of medical instruments and implants for spinal surgery, today announced the broad availability of its novel compliant-mechanism based systems for use in spinal surgeries; specifically, PressON, which is a patient-specific fixation system for stabilizing the human spine, and Tranquil, which is a flexible titanium device for […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carlsmed, Inc. is announcing today that the first aprevo patient specific spinal surgery has been successfully performed. Christopher Ames, M.D., director of spinal tumor and spinal deformity surgery at UC San Francisco Medical Center, assisted by Patrick Maloney, M.D., performed this landmark surgical procedure. “Carlsmed’s aprevo family of devices represent a new generation of surgical […]

ATLANTA, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — MiRus announced today that they will offer a LIFETIME LIMITED WARRANTY on its Molybdenum-Rhenium ( MoRe®) superalloy rod technology. The warranty will cover full replacement of the MoRe® Rod and corresponding MiRus hardware used in spinal fusion cases should the MoRe® Rod fracture. The warranty will cover all thoracolumbar MoRe® rods implanted as part […]

WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH) today announced changes to the Company’s Board of Directors, including: Sreelakshmi Kolli, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer of Align Technology Inc., has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately; Zimmer Biomet Non-Executive Chairman Larry C. Glasscock will retire […]

BELGRADE, Mont., Feb. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xtant Medical Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: XTNT) (the Company), a global medical technology company focused on surgical solutions for the treatment of spinal disorders, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with a single healthcare-focused institutional investor in a private placement of 8,888,890 common shares […]