New US Patents in Orthopedics… just released this week! (click emblem)
New Stories
- Centinel Spine acquires Prodisc assets from DePuy Synthes
- Report: Attune total knee seeing “unusually high” rate of early failure
- Could Wearables be Orthopedics’ Great Leap Forward?
- Bodycad launches the first 3D-printed Unicompartmental Knees
- Will Carbon-PEEK plating outperform metal plating?
- Exactech wins design award for knee instrumentation
- OrthoPediatrics files for an IPO with $21M in net sales
- The new FDA user fees are a heavy tax on startups
- NuVasive acquires Vertera Spine for its porous PEEK interbody technology
- Materialise’s upper extremity osteotomy guides aid surgeons
- A Lesson Learned: Don’t manipulate sales data to make your company look better
- CoreLink launches a clever stackable guidewire for SI joint fusions
- Is Amazon the biggest threat to orthopedic suppliers?
- Does the US really want less invasive spine technologies?
- EIT acquires 22 Patents for 3D-Printed Expandable Cage Technology Based on Living Hinges
- DePuy & Wright lead the US extremities market with foot & ankle procedures
- Spine startup bootstraps a 3D printed cervical implant with two materials
- India caps prices for total knees at $852
- Novel total hip design initiates clinicals in the US
- The story of how Consensus Orthopedics added smarts to orthopedic devices
- Hospitals adopting in-house 3D printing for surgery planning
- New technology to treat Facet Joint Syndrome
- Novel Foot Fixation system cleared by FDA
- First product for pediatric orthopedic startup for kid’s bunions
- Premia Spine kicks off posterior arthroplasty device study
- Top 10 Sports Medicine Technologies in 2017
- Globus Medical jumps into Robotics with the acquisition of KB Medical
- Tyber Medical Receives wins clearance for its TyFix™ All-in-One Extremity Joint Fixation Device
- Is There a Method to Stryker’s Mako Madness?
- The Potential FDA Impact of the 2018 Presidential Budget Request
- Avalign Technologies acquires Thortex and Millennium Surgical
- 6 Questions with Jeff O’Donnell, who is leading a disruptive orthopedic startup with an arthroscopy in the doctor’s office
- Orthopedic startup tackles post-surgical skin infections with its newest product
- Intellirod Spine pulls in $1M in Angel funding
- 5 AI predictions in healthcare in 5 years
- The future of orthopedics will include 3D printing
- Top 10 innovation in Podiatry is an antimicrobial sheet made by Organogenesis
- The MRI-friendly cervical disc pulls in $21M
- The FDA to use AI to accelerate device evaluations
- List of the largest industry payments to orthopedists
- Distribution Opportunity – FH Ortho – Shoulder arthroplasty, ACL/PCL repair, and Foot & Ankle recon
- Zimmer Biomet CEO resigns unexpectedly
- AI will have a profound effect on Orthopedics
- The UK calls for more screening for METAL-ON-METAL hip patients
- Robot wars in knee surgery – Smith + Nephew and Stryker
- Rumors of the death of ACOs are greatly exaggerated
- ConMed acquires MedShape’s ExoShape ACL portfolio
- The biggest disruption in healthcare will come from Apple
- STUDY: There is no benefit from RF denervation
- FREE CONSULTATION for Engineers interested in startups
- FDA clears the first 3D expandable interbody system
- Smith & Nephew brings the Navio handheld robot-assisted technology to its total knees
- DePuy Synthes acquires nerve location technology for spine procedures
- Are you ready for the coming AI disruption?
- Additive Ortho wins FDA clearance for 3D-printed bunion correction system
- Orthopedics: A Bright Spot for Value-Based Care
- How to cut the Total Hip Replacement stay from 3 days to 0 days
- ConforMIS to launch 3D-printed hips based on patient-specific technology
- SI-BONE goes 3D with their new iFuse implant
- Startup to watch: Mazor Robotics is going through a bazaar episode
- Go US first! may be your best new strategy
- Stryker invests in 3D printing with help from GE Additive
- Trice Medical pulls in funding from a key strategic to fuel commercialization
- The race to acquire Medical Device Startups
- You can buy a great little Total Joint company
- Seattle startup launches app that helps patients with home PT exercises
- AMB Surgical raises seed capital for the Flyte Automated Growing Rod
- Conventus Orthopaedics pulls in $20M to commercialize fracture repair in upper extremity
- The Unsung Hero of the Ortho Industry – the Rep
- Trump wants to double device user fees for manufacturers
- FDA says “NO” to the new robot system from Globus Medical
- TrumpCare may cut Orthopedic volumes by 1.2%
- Metal-on-Metal hip lawsuits are fading away
- Researchers are 3D printing the meniscus out of hydrogels
- Better to recover at home after TKA or THA
- Study: Metaphyseal sleeves improve early results in revision total knee replacement
- More layoffs coming at Medtronic Spine in Memphis
- Pro-industry Venture Capitalist is now heading up the FDA
- “Strapping” fixation without screws is cleared in Europe
- Study: standing TKA alignment is NOT a predictor of dynamic alignment
- Spine surgeon wins patent suit against Medtronic for “reckless copying” of designs
- Study: 30% of THA patients and 45% of TKA patents will need the other side replaced
- FDA clears the first 3D plates for general use in the lower extremity
- DePuy Synthes acquires 3D tissue printing technology
- Patients can hear their implants
- Treace Medical patents novel Lapiplasty® System and Surgical Procedure
- Amendia acquires Spinal Elements
- VIDEO: Students invent sensing shoes for patients with peripheral neuropathy
- 1,000 total hip procedures completed with the intellijoint HIP system
- Distribution Opportunity – Biologics
- The Ortho industry asks the FDA for 7 wishes
- CyMedica launches trial of E-Vive knee surgery rehab device
- FDA clears a new 3D Printed Unicompartmental Knee System
- FDA clears NuVasive’s CoRoent Interbody System for 4 levels!
- FDA clears extremity implant from Utah startup
- Restructuring planned at Stryker Instruments
- Saline Injections for the knee may actually be “therapeutic”
- Finally, a disc implant that is viewable on MRI!
- Corin’s innovative solution for total hip surgery without the robot
- The shift away from metals in Orthopedics
