How Brand Loyal Are Orthopedic Surgeons?

Click here for full Info Graphic                4 Findings on Orthopedic Surgeon Loyalty to Device Brands (Beckers) Orthopedic surgeons’ loyalty to certain device companies has significant repercussions on a hospital’s bottom line, vendor consolidation efforts and physician employment strategies.  Four take home messages…. 60% of orthopedic surgeons are loyal to [...]

Researchers Develop an Artificial Periosteum to Aid in Traumatic Fracture Healing

   Mimicking periosteum to heal traumatic bone injury (Case Western Reserve University) A manmade package filled with nature’s bone-building ingredients delivers the goods over time and space to heal serious bone injuries faster than products currently available, Cleveland researchers have found. Tested on sheep in Switzerland, the surgical elastic “implant device,” essentially a wrapping that mimics [...]

Smith & Nephew Increasing R&D Budget by $300M to Focus on BRIC Markets

           Smith & Nephew saves research spend for emerging markets (The Telegraph) Smith & Nephew, the maker of artifical hips and knees, is to ring-fence a slice of its research spending to develop products for emerging markets as it eyes sales in fast-growing economies. The FTSE 100 medical devices manufacturer has said [...]

Researchers Solve the Problem of Sterile Handling of Autologous Stem Cells

Stem Cells Grow in Plastic Bags (Bilione Young @ OTW) Researchers working in Germany have come up with a solution to a perplexing stem cell problem—how to keep the cell mixtures from becoming contaminated. While doctors have been increasingly using live cells in their treatments of patients—those cells have to be kept, cultivated, reproduced or even [...]

Research Sheds Light on Debris, Wear, and Cellular Pathways in Failed Total Joints

     Debris, Wear, and Cellular Pathways (written by Elizabeth Hofheinz @ OTW) Now researchers at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a number of cellular pathways that are involved in this response to the debris resulting from everyday use and wear which often result in pain, damage [...]

Orthopedic Surgeons in Austin Are Injecting Bone Marrow Stem Cells Into Knee Joints to Reduce Inflammation

  Texas Docs Injecting Stem Cells  (Bilione Young @ OTW) Dr. Robert Johnson, an orthopedic surgeon in Austin, Texas, took stem cells from the bone marrow of the hip of a 59-year-old man and injected it back into the patient’s knee joints. The result? Johnson said the stem cells reduced inflammation and pain and then became [...]

10 Spine Surgeon Leaders at Academic Institutions That You Need to Know

10 Spine Surgeon Leaders of Academic Medical Centers to Know (Beckers)

$12M Grant to Start Nationwide Registry of Total Joint Patients

$12 Million Grant to Improve Joint Replacement Surgery Outcomes (HealthNewsDigest)

Top 10 Orthopedic Procedures With the Most Problems

A few procedures account for most adverse events after orthopedic surgery (OrthoSuperSite) Top ten procedures that account for 70% of the adverse events:   Hip fracture (19%) Total knee arthroplasty (18%) Total hip arthroplasty (11%) Revision THA (5%) Knee arthroscopy (5%) Laminectomy (4%) Lumbar/thoracic arthrodesis (2%) Femoral fracture repair (2%) Revision knee arthroplasty (2%) Ankle [...]

NYU Has Discovered a Non-Invasive Method to Evaluate Osteoarthritis

Sodium MRI Gives New Insights into Detecting Osteoarthritis, NYU Researchers Find (NYU) Examining Sodium Ions for Knee OA (OTW)

The InMotion Orthopedic Research Center in Memphis Is Restructuring and Reducing Staff

InMotion restructuring, reducing staff (Memphis Business Journal)

Researchers in British Columbia Have Synthesized a Protein-Based Material That Stretches Exactly Like Muscle

Researchers in Vancouver, Canada, have synthesized a protein-based material that stretches exactly like muscle. Novel material ‘mimics muscles‘ (BBC News) Biomaterial Stretches Like Muscle (MIT Technology Review)

Adult Stem Cells May Be Helpful in Spinal Cord Injury

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have demonstrated in rats that transplanting genetically modified adult stem cells into an injured spinal cord can help restore the electrical pathways associated with movement. In spinal cord injury, demyelination, or the destruction of the myelin sheath in the central nervous system, occurs. The [...]

Cartilage Repair With a Bioactive Nanomaterial at Northwestern University

  Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors. Minimally invasive, the therapy activates the bone marrow stem cells and produces natural cartilage. No conventional therapy can do this. “Our material of nanoscopic fibers stimulates [...]

Austen BioInnovation (Akron, OH) to Develop New Products With Help of Partner Orthopaedic Research Labs

Akron’s effort to promote its medical research and development is getting help from a new Cleveland-based partner. Ohio.com…  http://www.ohio.com/news/83009392.html

Stretching Implant Life – Ideas From Cambridge University’S Engineering Department

A researcher from Cambridge University’s engineering department has been awarded a €1.5m (£0.9m) grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to set up a research group to improve the lifespan of prosthetic implants such as hip replacements. Researcher Athina Markaki and her team are working on a therapy whereby controlled levels of mechanical strain could [...]

Metallic Glass for Bone Surgery

        It is possible that broken bones will in the near future be fixed using metallic glass. Materials researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an alloy that could herald a new generation of biodegradable bone implants. Their results have been published in the online edition of Nature Materials…. http://ow.ly/rL0y

FDA Awards $2M in Grants for kids’ Medical Devices

  The FDA distribute the grants to three pediatric researchers in Michigan, Massachusetts and California Charlotte Observe.r.. http://ow.ly/qpSR

Mesoblast’S Successful Preclinical Disc Repair Is Featured at World Congress on Osteoarthritis Held in Montreal

 A single low-dose injection of Mesoblast’s allogeneic or “off-the-shelf” adult stem cells into severely damaged intervertebral discs resulted in dramatic reversal of the degenerative process…   http://ow.ly/pnic “Stem Cells Repair Sheep Nucleus” (OTW)… http://ow.ly/puLH

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

  http://ow.ly/nmg3

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May 18, 2012

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