Links tagged “Spine”
- Medtronic acquires Mazor Robotics for $1.6B (25 X sales last year)
- DePuy-Synthes acquires EIT for 3D-printed titanium implants in spinal
- CTL Medical acquires Amedica’s spine business and becomes CTL Amedica
- Medicare may end payments for spine procedures in ASCs
- Can an Elastic Plate result in a better Fusion?
- Zimmer Biomet joins the Robotics gold rush
- “Power T Handle” is used in the first spine surgeries
- Orthofix pivots into spine + extremities
- First in World! Spinal cages are now created by algorithms
- In the future, all spine braces will be smart
- Is This the Uber of Spine Surgery?
- Orthofix acquires Spinal Kinetics M6 disc for $105M
- Alphatec Spine acquires neuromonitoring platform for $27M in cash and stock
- NuVasive sues ATEC for employee poaching and patent infringement
- Centinel Spine pulls in $132M in funding
- FDA says “no” to Barricaid for partial annulus replacement in patients with herniated discs
- Spine surgeon sues DePuy Synthes for underpaid royalties
- Stryker acquires VEXIM for $216M (7 X sales)
- VGI Medical debuts unique Lateral Interbody Fusion system
- Spineology launches the Elite Expandable Interbody Fusion System
- Taking the MIS TLIF to the next level
- NuVasive acquires Vertera Spine for its porous PEEK interbody technology
- Does the US really want less invasive spine technologies?
- Spine startup bootstraps a 3D printed cervical implant with two materials
- Premia Spine kicks off posterior arthroplasty device study
- Intellirod Spine pulls in $1M in Angel funding
- STUDY: There is no benefit from RF denervation
- DePuy Synthes acquires nerve location technology for spine procedures
- Startup to watch: Mazor Robotics is going through a bazaar episode
- More layoffs coming at Medtronic Spine in Memphis
- Spine surgeon wins patent suit against Medtronic for “reckless copying” of designs
- FDA clears NuVasive’s CoRoent Interbody System for 4 levels!
- 1st U.S. Cases of Pedicle ‘Smart Screws’ completed
- Wenzel Spine acquires OsteoMed’s spine assets
- Exactech sells off spine business and restructures
- DePuy Synthes acquires the assets of Interventional Spine
- Paper: a review of corrosion in spine implants
- MEDICREA launches a “Lifetime Warranty” for Patient-Specific UNiD rods
- Alphatec Spine reduces workforce by 20%
- Study: SI-BONE is a clear winner at 2 years out
- Globus acquires Alphatec Spine’s international business for $80M
- Titan Spine gets an influx of capital to grow its interbody fusion business faster
- Zimmer’s LDR deal could force others to grow a “dealmaking” spine
- Is transparency the future of research? SI-BONE to share clinical trial data with the world
- Stryker debuts a new 3D-printed Posterior Lumbar Cage
- Stryker acquires SafeWire for MIS needles in spine surgery
- SpineSource launches an expandable lumbar interbody cage in the US
- LDR Spine: Mobi-C cervical total disc replacement beats fusion at 5 years
- Q&A with Jeff Schell, CEO of TranS1 – Fusing Innovation to the Spinal Sector
- SpineGuard performs the 1st Dynamic Surgical Guidance for pedicle screws
- Globus acquires Surgimap, a surgical planning software startup
- The 1st “augmented-reality” spine surgeries are carried out by Israeli startup Augmedics
- Stryker acquires K2M for $1.4 billion (4.7 X sales)
- Just a small spine acquisition, Fuse acquires Maxim in an all stock transaction
- Magnetic Kyphoplasty may be able to access hard-to-reach spine cancers
- Spine company sells and fulfills through Amazon
- A brand new SI Joint Fusion System is cleared by the FDA
- CoreLink acquires Expanding Orthopedics
- The short history of Titan Spine from 2006 to 2018
- STUDY: The MOBI-C has less pain and less adjacent level issues at 7 years
- The last “motion preserving” disc available for acquisition
- Coflex is superior to decompression alone at 2 years
- Globus Medical lunges into the Trauma market with 11 new products
- How many spine surgeries qualifies a surgeon as “experienced”?
- RTI Surgical acquires Zyga for its Sacroiliac Joint Fusion System
- Is lumbar total disc replacement becoming standard of care for patients with DDD?
- The Mazor Robotics system is 5X better than fluoroscopic-guided and freehand procedures
- A New Direction in Lateral Interbody Fusions
- Xtant Medical to shut down Dayton, Ohio facility
- Yes, Spine Surgery through the belly button!
- Centinel Spine acquires Prodisc assets from DePuy Synthes
- CoreLink launches a clever stackable guidewire for SI joint fusions
- EIT acquires 22 Patents for 3D-Printed Expandable Cage Technology Based on Living Hinges
- New technology to treat Facet Joint Syndrome
- Globus Medical jumps into Robotics with the acquisition of KB Medical
- The MRI-friendly cervical disc pulls in $21M
- FDA clears the first 3D expandable interbody system
- SI-BONE goes 3D with their new iFuse implant
- AMB Surgical raises seed capital for the Flyte Automated Growing Rod
- “Strapping” fixation without screws is cleared in Europe
- Amendia acquires Spinal Elements
- Finally, a disc implant that is viewable on MRI!
- Orthopedic surgical sophistication through single-use disposable instrumentation
- POD Spine Surgeon Sabit Gets 20 Years in Prison
- ChoiceSpine acquires Exactech’s spine assets
- Axiomed is Raising Interest from Silicon Valley
- Cerapedics wins the best new technology award at NASS
- Swiss startup offers non-metallic carbon/PEEK composite implants for trauma and spine
- Amedica reduces workforce by 38%
- Intellirod Spine raises funds to win regulatory approvals for wireless measurement of spine rods
- First-Ever FDA clearance for cement-augmented pedicle screws
- Merit Medical acquires DFine for $98M (3 X sales)
- Mazor Robotics wins a $42M partnership and equity deal with Medtronic
- Five MIS Spine news stories from the 2016 Spine Summit
- Verticore offers a crowfunded solution for low back pain without surgery
- Implanet’s Jazz Lock is now cleared in the US and EU
- Four emerging trends that are changing the spine surgery market
- New Technology – Spine Imaging through vibrations
- 50% of spine surgeons have performed a “wrong site” surgery
- 12 US Hospitals paid the government $28M for abusing kyphoplasty stays
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