Osseon Therapeutics to sell Osseoplasty VCF products into Europe and South America -

Osseon Therapeutics to sell Osseoplasty VCF products into Europe and South America

Osseon Signs International Distribution Agreement With MBA Incorporado (Yahoo Finance)… http://ow.ly/qB5N … Join thousands of ortho pros […]

Body snatchers accusation from Germany for tissue sold in US – RTI Biologics is involved

RTI/Tutogen is allegedly under investigation following accusations that the company paid for tissue (bones, cartilage, tendons, etc.) harvested without consent

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 … Join

Glow-in-the-Dark Doc: Radiation Exposure – Dr. Brian D. Giordano has advice for fellow Orthopedists

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Athletes With Smaller Anterior Cruciate Ligaments May Be More Susceptible To Injury

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Hip Pain May be Relieved by Treatments Other Than Surgery

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Dick Cheney Having Elective Spinal Surgery

to evaluate lumbar spinal stenosis at George Washington University Hospital (The Post Chronicle)… http://ow.ly/pXjN … Join thousands of ortho pros

Ortho companies in Warsaw voice opposition to Med Device fees in Baucus plan

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DSM Biomedical Develops Polymer Platform for Artificial Hips and Knees

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Acrobot and Finsbury to co-market Acrobot’s Navigator with Finsbury’s ADEPT hip resurfacing implant

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Bone up on bone health – You can prevent osteoporosis by avoiding certain risk factors

Buffalo News… http://ow.ly/puCo Osteoporosis Risk Factors Having a small frame Family history of osteoporosis Menopausal or

Saving Your Bones: Hard Choices – Osteoporosis Drugs Prevent Fractures, but Patients Worry About Side Effects; Weighing the Risks

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K2M launches Natural Bridge Low Profile Transverse Connectors for stabilization in thoracolumbar spine

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Senators oppose tax on Medical Devices

Star Tribune… http://ow.ly/pBJa The medical-devices sector has come out swinging against a U.S. Senate proposal that could

Core Essence Orthopaedics announces John Moran, the first Synthes Spine President in the 1990’s, will serve as CEO

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Orthomimetics reports 10th patient in a clinical study for Chondromimetic, a dual-layered implant for the repair of damaged cartilage and bone

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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

Integra LifeSciences acquires the assets of bankrupt Innovative Spinal Technologies for $9.2M

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Warsaw needs hook, summit says – Orthopedic industry seeks to make city a lure for talent

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Months of agony with recalled hip show need for national registry, experts say

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Whoops…internal leak at Medtronic suggests there is a profit goal in funding surgeon training in Australia

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JBJS looks at Orthopedics in 2020 – changes in demographics, disease incidence, treatment modalities and delivery of orthopedic services

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Ortho-Space (Israel) is spun off from BioProtect and raises $1 million

Xenia Venture Capital Ltd. (TASE: XENA) portfolio company BioProtect Ltd. has spun off its orthopedics operations unit and announced a

Amedica Announces New Global Headquarters in Salt Lake City 57,000 sq ft

Amedica (Salt Lake) Spine startup with cervical ceramic-on-ceramic spacer approved, four rounds of funding so far, IPO was planned late

Synthes wins patent suit with Medtronic covering the Synthes ProDisc-L artificial disc replacement – $21M award

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AOI Medical completes clinical trial to treat vertebral compression fractures, Ascendx launch in 2010

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Covidean’s DuraSeal dural sealant gains FDA clearance

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Stryker Adds Quality Chief

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Is A-Spine’s Vesselplasty an improvement over Kyphoplasty?

U of Penn evaluated a small series of patients using the A-Spine’s new Vesselplasty technique with the Vessel-X Bone Filling Container System.

World health authorities are not in agreement on how to address bone loss and fracture risk

W.H.O. recommends the FRAX tool to evaluate fracture risk of patients… http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/index.htm NYTimes… “Splits Form Over How to Address Bone

Synovis Life Technologies Reports Record Revenue of $15 Million for the Third Quarter of Fiscal 2009

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Medicrea gets FDA clearance for its PASS LP ultra low profile polyaxial spine system

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Archus Orthopedics is shutting down its operations

Archus Orthopedics, Spine Device Maker that Raised $60M, Shuts Down Amid Cash Crunch (Xconomy)… http://ow.ly/nWpg Turning out the lights (WSJ

NuVasive’s CFO resigns

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MAKO Surgical raises $54M after selling 8 million shares of common stock

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Orthofix lures Stryker exec away from Kalamazoo

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Active Implants receives a CE Class III Certificate for its TriboFit Hip System

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IWalk lands $20M to develop robotic prosthetic ankle

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Surgeons: Stem Cell Operation Could End Hip Replacements

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Senators demand that GPOs provide transparency to how vendor contracts are chosen

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HSS Researchers identify protein involved in osteoporosis and arthritis —> interferon regulator factor-8 (IRF-8)

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Medtronic CEO defends payments to physician consultants and stresses the value of medical devices and of surgeon alliances that can improve them

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