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- Smith & Nephew sponsors competition to solve problems in orthopaedic reconstruction, sports medicine, and trauma
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- Announcement: administrative change
- Orthopedics industry legend dies – Dane Miller, Biomet founder
- Smith & Nephew CEO Bohoun “our half price Total Joint program is a growth driver”
- Wright-Tornier to raise $400M with debt offering
- Chicago hospital is recruiting patients for an ACL Sparing Total Knee
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- The 3D Printing Future has arrived! MedShape gains FDA clearance for its 3D printed titanium metatarsal plate
- The Baxano technology was acquired by Amendia at an asset auction
- Elizabeth Warren is fighting to repel the Medical Device Tax
- FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg resigns
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- Case report: Use of the Mazor Robotic System in adult scoliosis surgery
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- Korean orthopedists review the Prime Minister’s son’s knees in public
- Study: The 1st PRP injection is the most effective for healing
- Study: Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty has gained rapid acceptance in the United States
- Study: Robotic-assisted THA matches the imaging data in angles and measurements
- ‘Orthopedic Capital Of The World’ is still hiring despite the new Med Device Tax
- FDA: Stop the using recombinant proteins and synthetic peptides in patients under 18
- Integra acquires Foot and Ankle product line from Metasurg
- Only 4,400 total ankles replacements done in US in 2010 but increasing
- Exactech acquires a French company for joint navigation for $9.25M
- Biologics is the future of rotator cuff repair according to Dr Verma
- Report: VCs put higher investment into fewer medtech deals last year
- An Open Letter to Orthopedic Distributors
- Founder discusses how Titan Spine will gain procedures in the spine fusion market
- Stryker finally getting some momentum with the MAKO business
- Smith & Nephew takes “repless” pilot program into Australia, New Zealand and Europe
- Study questions the results of minimally invasive discectomies
- Spinal Simplicity creates the 1st lateral-approach interspinous process fusion device
- Stryker CEO is skeptical of the ‘repless’ generic sales model
- Feds are going after spine surgeons in S Dakota for unnecessary surgeries
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- Statistics: Falls still haunt the lives of the Elderly
- Medtech Panel: Here are the keys to winning startup seed funding
- Amedica trims its organization as stock dips below a dollar
- How Spinal Surgery History Was Made Through a Tiny Tube
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- A look to the future: Teaching the next generation of orthopedic surgeons
- How Doctors think about new technologies
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- An FDA perspective on the use of 3D printing in medical applications
- Mimedx receives subpoena from Office of Inspector General, HHS
- CMS releases new J-code for a one injection Monovisc manufactured by Anika Therapeutics
- Study: Cartilage loss is accelerated after common meniscus surgery
- Dent: Repealing the 2.3% medical device excise tax should be #1 priority in 2015
- Biomet bribery probe may stall Zimmer Merger
- Study: No difference in outcomes with simultaneous bilateral TKA
- And the latest high-profile athlete to receive stem cell injections OUS is… Rafael Nadal
- Now the Zimmer-Biomet merger is stalled in foreign bribery investigations
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- Habitual running ‘may protect against knee osteoarthritis, not cause it’
- New test for Osteogenesis Imperfecta or brittle bone disease
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- Reverse total shoulders on the rise
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- FDA approves first ever 3D stereoradiographic planning tool for hips
- Breaking down some Orthopedic statistics
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- New Harvard Study Could Change Orthopedics Forever
- A glimpse into the future of orthopedics – sensors in implants
- New kind of knee surgery provides much needed stability for ACL repair
- Study: Running does not cause OA
- Texas manufacturer acquires an Italian Orthopedics manufacturer
- Your dashboard for the Zimmer-Biomet merger
- Zimmer proposes selling knee and elbow lines to satisfy EC
- Stryker CEO Lobo: “For every POD that goes away a new POD seems to pop up”
- Old is new… Biomet developed a quieter, more natural ACL/PCL preserving knee
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- Zimmer may have to divest Uni-compartmental Knees and Shoulders to do the Biomet deal
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