IWalk Lands $20M to Develop Robotic Prosthetic Ankle

http://ow.ly/nvX9

Surgeons: Stem Cell Operation Could End Hip Replacements

http://ow.ly/nv02

Senators Demand That GPOs Provide Transparency to How Vendor Contracts Are Chosen

Orthopedics This Week… http://ow.ly/nyz3

HSS Researchers Identify Protein Involved in Osteoporosis and Arthritis —> Interferon Regulator Factor-8 (IRF-8)

http://ow.ly/nmg3

Medtronic CEO Defends Payments to Physician Consultants and Stresses the Value of Medical Devices and of Surgeon Alliances That Can Improve Them

http://ow.ly/nhU0

MedIdea LLC Filed a Suit Against Zimmer Alleging Infringement of 7 Patents Related to Hip and Shoulder Replacements

Law360 http://ow.ly/ni23 MedIdea v. Zimmer Holdings http://ow.ly/ni2b

Study Finds Steady Drop in Hip Fracture Rates, but Reasons Are Unclear

HealthPointCapital… http://ow.ly/nvUI NYTimes… http://ow.ly/nhXv

Osteoporosis Illustration – This Man Is Sporty, Just 46 and Looks Healthy. Yet His Bones Could Snap at Any Minute

http://ow.ly/njRN

Inteview With ConforMIS Founder and CEO on Custom-Made Implants, Where He Got the Idea and How He Raised $50M

Q&A with MedDevice http://ow.ly/lFnC

Sanford Clinic Neurosurgeon Receives FDA Clearance as a Lumbar Intervertebral Body Fusion Device – Asfora Bullet Cage

Press Release http://ow.ly/lCbs

Cardea Technology & Optasia Medical to Collaborate to Optimize Their Vertebral Fracture Assessment Tools

http://ow.ly/lCEd

Dr. David Polly Resigns From AAOS Board – Medtronic Consulting Issues Have Become an Unnecessary Distraction

U of Minn response to Grassley inquiry http://ow.ly/lwMu Star Tribune http://ow.ly/lkZZ Orthopedics This Week http://ow.ly/ll2B

Private Placement in Orthopedics Is Alive and Well

HealthPointCapital http://ow.ly/lto1 Private Placements in 2009 http://ow.ly/ltou

US Spine Launches Preference 2 Complex Spine System for Scoliosis, Kyphosis, Trauma and Tumors

http://ow.ly/lnKR

STAR Ankle Replacement Function Better Than Fusion – 24 Month Data

American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) http://ow.ly/ll0T

Sea Worm Provides Model for New Surgical Adhesive

http://ow.ly/ll3N

Del Palma Orthopedic Nets $1.5M in Series a Funding From Knowledge Ventures, Percutaneous Monorail Technology for Hand, Wrist and Elbow Procedures

Funding Press Release http://ow.ly/l9gZ Website http://www.delpalmaortho.com/ Startups Funded in 2009 http://ow.ly/lcaZ

Extremity Medical Gets FDA Clearance for Its Hallu-X Intramedullary Implant for Big Toe Fusions

http://ow.ly/lc6e

Italian Scientists Turn Wood Into New Artificial Bone

http://ow.ly/kZbe

Medical Device Makers Holding Steady in Battle Against the Recession – the Indiana Perspective

http://ow.ly/l5GJ

Dr. David Kraft, a Stanford Pediatric Oncologist, Invents a Better Way to Harvest Bone Marrow

Video at TED http://ow.ly/l1my

Synthes and Kensey Nash Team Up on Extracellular Matrix Technology – Kensey to Manufacture, Synthes to Market

http://ow.ly/kMYA Porcine Pair… http://ow.ly/laOF

Anika Soars on FDA Filing Expectations, rival’S Stumble

HIGHLIGHTS * Expects to submit final trial data to FDA by year end * Knee osteoarthritis injection gets Health Canada OK * Expects to launch Monovisc this month in Canada http://ow.ly/kN0k

49 Spine Companies Submit Products for First Spine Technology Awards

http://ow.ly/kN20 Advanced Biologics LLC Alpha Med-Surge, Inc. Alpha Orthopaedics Inc Alphatech Spine, Inc Amedica Corporation Applied Spine ArthroCare Spine Aspen Medical Products, Inc. Axial Biotech, Inc. Bacterin Biomet, Inc. BTE Technologies, Inc. Covidien CrossCurrent Inc. Custom Spine, Inc. DePuy Spine, Inc. DFine, Inc. Disc Motion Technologies DSM PTG (DSM Biomedical) Facet Solutions, Inc. iMDS Integra [...]

Spinal Elements Offers an Interactive Case Study That Highlights Their Products – Take the Test and See How You Do

Click here to see the Case Study… http://ow.ly/kEtw

Medtronic Units Appeal Globus Patent Judgment

http://ow.ly/kErc

FDA Panel Wants More Data Before Approving Smith & Nephew’S DUROLANE Single Injection, Stabilized Hyaluronic Acid, for Knee Arthritis

Smith & Nephew Takes Single Injection PMA to Next Stage http://ow.ly/kEhB

FDA Panel Recommends Clearance for DePuy’S Pinnacle CoMplete Ceramic-on-Metal Hip Device – an Industry First!

Italian Surgeons Present Early Clinical Data From SpineAlign Medical’S Vertebroplasty System

http://ow.ly/kvOu

Dr. Timothy Kuklo Resigns From Washington University After Accused by U.S. Army Officials of Falsifying Data in a Clinical Study

WSJ Online… http://ow.ly/kvNI SpineBlogger… http://spineblogger.blogspot.com/2009/08/kuklo-resigns.html

Banktupt IST Spine Is Now Sued for Fraud and Breach Over a Patent License With Mass. Spine Surgeons

Mass Device… http://ow.ly/knDf

AAOS Pushes Back on Obama’S Statements Regarding the Value of Surgery and Blurring the Realities of Physician Reimbursements

AAOS Statement… http://ow.ly/knHt

Applied Spine Technologies Reaches 2 Year Clinical Data With Its Stabilimax Dynamic Spine Stabilization System

Yahoo Finance… http://ow.ly/knET

Ortho People on the move… Kevin Unger Is the New President of Orthofix Spine

More recently lead Stryker’s MedSurg Division… http://ow.ly/knzV

Artificial Cartilage Plugs That Use the body’S Repair System to Grow New Cartilage

NYTimes… “Mimicking Human Cartilage to Repair a Knee” http://ow.ly/kecq List of Sports Medicine Startups… http://orthostreams.com/?page_id=904

Turmoil at FDA! Device Chief Out, Drug Chief Investigated

WSJ Health Blog… http://ow.ly/kdNe

BioSyntech Announces CEO as They Work on Strategic Initiatives With PricewaterhouseCoopers, Stock Price Reaches $0.12

http://ow.ly/kdDD Other Sports Medicine startups… http://orthostreams.com/?page_id=904

Japanese Researchers Grow a Mouse Tooth From Stem Cells – Any Future Ortho Applications Here?

WSJ Online http://ow.ly/k8fW HealthPointCapital http://ow.ly/k8fr

Where Are They Now? in 2008, OrthoData Raised $1.1M in Series a Funding to Develop Diagnostic Strain Gauge Technology for Spinal Rods

http://www.techjournalsouth.com/news/article.html?item_id=5816

MAKO Surgical Announces Common Stock Offering – Anticipating Proceeds in the $50M Range

http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=171419

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