KALAMAZOO, Michigan, USA, Oct. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Stryker’s Advanced Guidance Technologies business (formerly known as Stryker’s Navigation business) announced today it has entered into strategic partnerships with Synaptive Medical and Ziehm Imaging, strengthening Stryker’s position as a leader in surgical guidance. Through the partnership with Synaptive Medical, Stryker will offer the BrightMatter™ Plan software, which automatically generates […]
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60 Spine Companies to Know with “S”
Over the recent years, global spinal fusion market has been witnessing growth, on account of several driving factors including rising healthcare awareness amongst consumers, surging prevalence of spinal deformities due to accidents along with increasing health expenditure in developing countries. Moreover, ongoing demographic shift towards geriatric population with significant population suffering from inveterate spinal ailments, […]
NuVasive To Showcase Comprehensive Solutions For Complex Spinal Deformities At Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, today announced it will highlight several of its latest spinal innovations to treat complex spinal deformities at the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Annual Meeting held October 10-13, […]
Study Demonstrating Globus Medical’s Expandable Technology Improves Lordosis and Reduces Subsidence Awarded Best Paper at SMISS
AUDUBON, Pa., Oct. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Globus Medical, Inc. (NYSE:GMED), a leading musculoskeletal solutions company, announced today that a recent clinical study evaluating static versus expandable lateral lumbar interbody fusion devices was awarded best paper at the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) Annual Forum held last month. The study, led by […]
Power T Handle Wins Spine Innovation Award
WILMINGTON, N.C. (PRWEB) OCTOBER 04, 2018–Power T Handle, LLC, a surgeon-driven, innovative company, announced today that it has received a Spine Technology Award from Orthopedics This Week during the 2018 National Association of Spine Surgeons (NASS) meeting in Los Angeles, CA last week. The Power T Handle is a surgical instrument that delivers operating room […]
Implanet UK announces its first surgery in the United Kingdom
Implanet (Paris:ALIMP) (OTCQX:IMPZY) (Euronext Growth: ALIMP, FR0010458729, eligible for PEA-PME equity savings plans; OTCQX: IMPZY), a medical technology company specializing in vertebral and knee surgery implants, announces the completion of its first surgery in the United Kingdom via Implanet UK, at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital of Birmingham, following the opening of its branch in early […]
CarboFix’s Extends its CarboClear® Carbon Fiber Pedicle Screw System Product Line with its FDA Cleared Trans-Connector
DOVER, Delaware, Oct. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — CarboFix in Orthopedics LLC., has announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its CarboClear® Carbon Fiber Transverse Connectors to be used in conjunction with its Carbon Fiber Pedicle Screw System, a novel device to surgically treat oncological patients, cleared by the FDA earlier […]
Amedica Announces Closing of the SALE of the Sale of its Spine Business to CTL Medical
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amedica Corporation (NASDAQ: AMDA) today announced that it has completed the previously-announced sale of its spine business to CTL Medical, a Dallas, TX-based privately held medical device manufacturer, on October 1, 2018, all as more fully described below. As previously announced, Amedica and CTL Medical entered […]
SeaSpine Announces Preliminary Results for Third Quarter 2018
CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a release issued under the same headline earlier today by SeaSpine Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNE) please note that in the fifth paragraph of the release under 2018 Financial Outlook the growth should be 7% to 8% over full-year 2017 revenue, not 6% to 9% over full-year […]
ApiFix Surpasses 250 Scoliosis Patients Treated and Six-Year Follow-up of Earliest Cases
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ApiFix Ltd., a leading motion-preservation scoliosis correction company, announced today that its patented Minimally Invasive Deformity Correction (MID-C) technology has now been used to treat more than 250 young patients diagnosed with progressive scoliosis. The company also announced that the earliest treated patients have reached their six-year follow-up milestone. ApiFix’s MID-C technology is a […]
AI And Robotics Are Taking Robotic Surgery To New Levels
(INVESTORS.COM)–With artificial intelligence now firmly entrenched in many hospital operating rooms, the field of robotic surgery is starting to get competitive.Giant companies like Alphabet (GOOGL), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Medtronic(MDT) are training their sights on Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), the king of robotic surgery companies. But analysts say the booming medical technology segment has lots of room to run. Robotic surgery is […]
SCOUT:Spineology U.S. Clinical Trial for Interbody Fusion
ST. PAUL, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spineology Inc., an innovator in anatomy-conserving spine surgery, is excited to announce that John Chi, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Neurosurgical Spinal Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, presented 12-month outcomes data from Spineology’s SCOUT clinical trial at the recent […]
Medacta International Appoints Francesco Siccardi its Next Chief Executive Officer
CASTEL SAN PIETRO, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Medacta® International, the privately held, family-owned global leader in the design of innovative joint replacement and spinal surgery products, today announced that Francesco Siccardi, a noted biomedical engineer and current Executive Vice President of Medacta International, will become the company’s next chief executive officer on November 1, 2018. After nearly twenty […]
First Patient Enrolled in Vertos Medical’s New MOTION Study of MILD® Procedure, a Minimally Invasive Treatment for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Vertos Medical Inc., a leader in the development of innovative, minimally invasive treatments for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), today announced the enrollment of the first patient into its nationwide, multicenter study of its mild® procedure. The novel, prospective, randomized controlled study will use clinically validated, patient-reported outcome […]
Safe Orthopaedics continues to improve results over the first six months of 2018
Eragny-sur-Oise, 28th September 2018, 6 pm CEST – SAFE ORTHOPAEDICS (FR0012452746 – SAFOR), Safe Orthopaedics (FR0012452746 – SAFOR), a company specialized in the development and marketing of implants and single-use instruments that improve the minimally invasive treatment of spinal fracture conditions, today announced its revenue for the six-month period ending on the 30th June 2018. […]
Alphatec Accelerates Organic Innovation Machine With Addition of Key Senior Leadership and Expansion of Market Development Team
CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (“ATEC” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ATEC), a provider of innovative spine surgery solutions with a mission to improve patient lives through the relentless pursuit of superior outcomes, today announced the appointment of Mark Ojeda as Executive Vice President, Cervical and Biologics. The Company also […]
SPINEWAY : Presentation of its new Mont-Blanc Evo line at the Eurospine 2018 conference
In a distributor meeting at the Eurospine 2018 conference, Spineway teams presented the advantages of the new Mont-Blanc Evo line to over twenty of their international distributors. This development of Spineway’s Mont-Blanc implants and screws allows surgeons to place screws twice as fast and for more efficient placement thanks to the new design. The instruments […]
OrthoPediatrics Corp. to Sponsor Two Medical Meetings in October
WARSAW, Ind., Sept. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OrthoPediatrics Corp. (NASDAQ: KIDS), a company exclusively focused on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics, announced today it will continue its Premier sponsorship for the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (“AACPDM”), which will take place October 9-13 in Cincinnati, […]
4WEB Medical, TeDan Surgical Innovations and Lattus Spine Announce Exclusive Partnership To Provide Best In Class Total Lateral Solution.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — 4WEB Medical, the industry leader in 3D printed implant technology, announced today at the North American Spine Society (NASS) Annual Meeting that the company has entered into an exclusive partnership with both TeDan Surgical Innovations and Lattus Spine, LLC to market a turnkey, best in class, Total Lateral […]
Nvision Biomedical Technologies Launches Pedicle Screw System at NASS
Wednesday, September 26, 2018–LOS ANGELES – Nvision Biomedical Technologies, a San Antonio-based medical device and biologics manufacturer, debuted its focus® Pedicle Screw System today at the North American Spine Society (NASS) Annual Meeting, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, September 26-29. The Nvision focus Pedicle Screw System, which received clearance from the U.S. Food […]
Stryker announces 510(k) clearance of SpineJack® Implantable Fracture Reduction System
KALAMAZOO, Michigan, USA, Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Stryker announced today that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market the SpineJack Implantable Fracture Reduction System. The SpineJack system is indicated for use in the reduction of painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. In the SAKOS clinical study, the SpineJack system demonstrated superiority to balloon kyphoplasty […]
Medicrea Hosts First-Ever Spine Artificial Intelligence Focused Meeting in Lyon, France
LYON, France & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Medicrea® Group (Euronext Growth Paris: FR0004178572 – ALMED), pioneering the transformation of spinal surgeries through Artificial Intelligence, predictive modeling and patient specific implants with its UNiD™ ASI (Adaptive Spine Intelligence) proprietary software platform, services and technologies, announced today that it hosted the first-ever Spine Artificial Intelligence Focused Meeting in […]
Medicrea Announces NASS 2018 Presence And Highlights a Recently Published Study Validating Its Predictive Modelling Approach for AIS Patients
LYON, France & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Medicrea Group (Euronext Growth Paris: FR0004178572 – ALMED, PEA-PME eligible, and OTCQX: MNRTY and MNRTF), pioneering the transformation of spinal surgeries through Artificial Intelligence, predictive modeling and patient specific implants with its UNiD™ ASI (Adaptive Spine Intelligence) technology, announced today that the Company is attending the NASS 2018 meeting […]
RTI Surgical® Features Next-Generation Spine Implant Technologies at NASS 2018
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RTI Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTIX), a global surgical implant company, will showcase research reinforcing the strength of its spine portfolio, notably the Fortilink® IBF series featuring TETRAfuse® 3D Technology, at the North American Spine Society’s (NASS) 33rd Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, September 26-29. Additionally, RTI will feature its full line of hardware, […]
Aurora Spine Participating at North American Spine Society Annual Meeting
CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aurora Spine Corporation (TSXV: ASG) announced today that it will be participating at the 2018 North American Spine Society (“NASS”) Annual Meeting, September 26-29, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California at Booth 1625. The North American Spine Society is a global multidisciplinary medical […]
Alphatec Advances Clinical Distinction With OsseoScrew® Clearance
RLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (“ATEC” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ATEC), a provider of innovative spine surgery solutions with a mission to improve patient lives through the relentless pursuit of superior outcomes, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for […]
SeaSpine Announces Launch of Regatta™ Lateral System
CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SeaSpine Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNE), a global medical technology company focused on surgical solutions for the treatment of spinal disorders, today announced the launch of the Regatta™ Lateral System, featuring NanoMetalene® technology. Regatta is a comprehensive, minimally invasive lateral interbody fusion system designed to efficiently and reproducibly […]