Biomedical Structures Introduces Breakthrough Textile Weaving for Tendons & Ligaments

Biomedical Structures Introduces Breakthrough Medical Textile Weaving Capabilities for Artificial Tendon and Ligament Applications (press release)   Biomedical Structures LLC (BMS), a developer of biomedical textiles for medical devices and other advanced clinical applications, today announced its advanced new tapered medical textile solution for tendons, ligaments and other orthopedic applications. BMS’ advanced weaving capabilities provide a [...]

Rice Students Develop a User-Friendly Bone-Lengthening Distractor Device

Students Develop Bone-Lengthening Device (Biloine Young @ OTW) Life is about to get a whole lot better for children undergoing distraction osteogenesis, thanks to a group of senior students at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Distraction osteogenesis is a method of correcting bone deformities that leave one limb shorter than the other. About 10 million children have [...]

DePuy Spine Launches a New Transfacet Pedicular Fixation Device, the Viper F2

New Posterior Fixation System From DePuy Spine (Walter Eisner @ Depuy Spine) DePuy Spine, Inc. has a new transfacet pedicular fixation system designed to provide stability and fixation during degenerative lumbar spine fusion procedures. The company launched the new screw and polyaxial ring system at the 80th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological [...]

Abbott Developing a Simple Test to Find Orthopedic Infections Early

Abbott developing quicker test for orthopedic infections (press release) Infection poses one of the most serious risks to patients getting a hip or knee replaced, and a major U.S. drugmaker is developing a test to quickly identify the pathogens responsible so doctors can treat problems sooner. Abbott Diagnostics Group, a unit of Abbott Laboratories, is working with [...]

Wright Launches CLAW II Polyaxial Compression Plating System for Foot & Ankle

 Wright Medical Group, Inc. Announces Launch of Next Generation CLAW® II Polyaxial Compression Plating System  (press release) The CLAW…part deux…Wright Medical Group, Inc. has announced the full commercial launch of the CLAW II Polyaxial Compression Plating System featuring ORTHOLOC 3DSi Polyaxial Locking Screw Technology. The system will be available this month in the U.S. through [...]

Amniox Medical Brings Revolutionary Amniotic Membrane Technology to the Forefront of Podiatry

Amniox Medical Brings Revolutionary Amniotic Membrane Technology to the Forefront of Podiatry Amniox Medical Press Release Amniox launching NEOXTM Grafts at the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference Amniox Medical, Inc., a leader in Amnion regenerative tissue therapies, will introduce their NEOXTM Grafts at the 2012 Annual Scientific Conference of the [...]

List of 30 New Orthopedic Device Product Launches

     30 New Orthopedic Device Launches & Releases (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Biomet 1. Signature Personalized Patient Care System for Oxford Partial Knee System — The Signature Personalized Patient Care System creates a custom femoral and tibial surgical positioning guide for the partial knee replacement. The procedure is indicated for patients with osteoarthritis or avascular necrosis [...]

TeDan Surgical Innovations Launches Clever New Minimally Invasive Hip Retractor for Anterior Hip Replacement Procedures

       TeDan Surgical Innovations Website New Minimally Invasive Hip Retractor Revolutionizes Anterior Hip Replacement Procedures (press release) TeDan Surgical Innovations, industry leader in surgical access instrumentation, announces the launch of the Phantom Series MIS Anterior Hip Retractor System. TeDan Surgical’s revolutionary hip retractor utilizes a system of adjustable surgical arms with attachable retractors, enabling [...]

12 New Research and Development Projects Announced by Orthopedic Companies

     12 Research and Development Projects for New Orthopedic & Spine Technology (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Here are 12 orthopedic and spine technology research and development projects. DePuy Orthopaedics recently announced its plan to spend $7 million on research and development equipment for its company by 2014. At the same time, it announced plans to spend [...]

Spine Startup Soteira Enters the VCF Market in the U.S. With the Shield Kyphoplasty System

      Soteira Enters U.S. VCF Market  (Walter Eisner @ OTW) Soteira Inc. of Natick, Massachusetts, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the company’s Shield Kyphoplasty System in the U.S. In the December 12 press release, Larry Jasinski, Soteira’s president and CEO, said the system includes a “unilateral, steerable [...]

Orthopedic Surgeon Uses a “Sterile” iPad Every Day in the Operating Room

  DC surgeon: “I use the iPad every day in the operating room”  (David Raths @ TabTimes) Felasfa M. Wodajo, MD explains how and why the iPad has so quickly become such an indispensable tool during surgery Some hospitals and health systems are working on customizing their clinical information systems so that doctors making their [...]

Zimmer Launches New Modular Hip System in the U.S.

      Zimmer Brings New Hip Stem to U.S. (Walter Eisner @ OTW) Zimmer Holdings, Inc. says it has a new hip stem technology now available in the U.S. that enables surgeons to “better match patients’ individual anatomies” with modular neck options designed for independent, intraoperative adjustments. The CLS Brevius Hip Stem with Kinectiv Technology [...]

SANUWAVE Shock Wave Technology Shown to Proliferate Adult Stem Cells

    SANUWAVE Technology Shown to Proliferate Adult Stem Cells (press release) SANUWAVE Health, Inc., an emerging medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of noninvasive, biological response activating devices in regenerative medicine, today announced the publication of peer-reviewed, preclinical data that demonstrate the ability of the Company’s extracorporeal shock wave technology (ESWT) to [...]

Short Video Interview: EnHatch, a Different Kind of Medical Device Development Company

EnHatch website 10 startups from mHealth 2011: EnHatch (MedCityNews) A Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based health IT and medical device company, EnHatch, gives medical innovators, surgeons and physicians the tools to get their ideas to market as soon as possible. Its focuses on collaboration between surgeons and engineers in the development of medical devices. Its vice president of [...]

Oxford Performance Materials Is Now “Laser Printing” Patient-Specific Spinal Implants

    Oxford Performance Materials website Oxford Announces Patient-Specific Implants (Biloine Young @ OTW) Osteofab, a division of Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) of South Windsor, Connecticut, has manufactured and shipped its first patient-specific implant. According to OPM President Scott Defelice, the custom-designed implant is made by a selective laser centering machine from a polymer called polyetherketoneketone [...]

Spotlight on Treating the SI Joint at NASS & EuroSpine – SI-BONE iFuse Implants Discussed

      Thought-leading spine surgeon presentations support increased awareness of SI joint diagnosis and iFuse® Implant System for minimally invasive SI joint fusion (press release) SI-BONE, Inc. (San Jose, California), a medical device company that is pioneering the use of a minimally invasive surgical (MIS) device to treat the sacroiliac (SI) joint reported today that [...]

Researches Use 3-D Printer That Can Make Bone-Like Material

     3-D Printer Used to Make Bone-Like Material (Science Daily) It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone. And it came off an inkjet printer. Washington State University researchers have used a 3-D printer to create a bone-like material and structure that can be used in orthopedic [...]

TranS1 Launches Minimally Invasive Lateral Access Fusion System

  TranS1 Inc. Announces Launch of Minimally Invasive Lateral Access Fusion System (press release) TranS1 Inc. (Nasdaq:TSON), a pioneer in minimally invasive approaches to lumbar spine surgery, today announced the launch of its new lateral access fusion system for interbody fusions. TranS1′s minimally invasive lateral system features an innovative, two-stage retraction method that focuses on nerve [...]

Thoracic Spine Surgery: A New Technique to Avoid Operating on the Wrong Level

  Thoracic Spine Surgery: A New Technique to Avoid Operating on the Wrong Level (American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)) It does not happen often, but nearly 50 percent of spine surgeons perform surgery on the wrong level of the spine sometime during their career. This is not surprising: a variety of factors make it difficult [...]

The Top Ten Best New Spine Technologies for 2011

        The Top Ten Best New Spine Technologies for 2011 (Robin Young @ OTW) The winners of the 2011 Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology award for Spine are: Advanced Biologics, LLC, Aesculap, Inc., AlloSource, CoAlign Innovations, Inc., Ellipse Technologies, Inc., NeuroLogica Corporation, NLT SPINE, Nocimed, LLC, The Society for Minimally Invasive Spine [...]

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