Pioneer Surgical just announced the first human use of nanOss Bioactive 3D. The procedures were perfomed by Dr. Nicholas Matagaras at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers, Illinois. The product is a three-dimensional shaped biologic bone graft which utilizes proprietary nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite as well as a collagen-based biopolymer to promote bone growth in posterolateral spine. Dr. [...]

Sporting increased mobility and a low profile, Exactech’s new Gibralt Spinal System has gone to full market launch. The Gibralt is a comprehensive solution for posterior stabilization and an adjunct to fusion of the cervical and upper thoracic spine. The product features top loading polyaxial screws, hooks, offset connectors, and rod-to-rod connectors which can be [...]

Don O’Hearn is K2M, Inc.’s new Senior Vice President of Sales in the Americas. The company announcement on December 13 stated that the appointment of O’Hearn is “an important milestone in the company’s strategic plan to become a global leader in the spine market. With O’Hearn’s 20 years of medical industry expertise, K2M’s President and [...]

Per the November 16 press release, Francis Harrison, the former global vice president, regulatory affairs for Covidien of Boulder, Colorado, accepted the position of vice-president for Regulatory, Clinical Affairs and Quality at Alphatec Spine, Inc. At Covidien she was responsible for global registrations, regulatory compliance and product labeling for a business unit with more than [...]

Citing the upcoming 2.3% medical device tax as well as a desire to drive continued growth, Stryker Corporation says it’s going to cut approximately 1,000 jobs by the end of 2013 to reduce costs by over $100 million beginning in 2012. A November 10 announcement said the company was going to cut its global workforce [...]

On November 2, 2011, Integra LifeSciences Holding Corporation announced the launch of a new IBD, the Complete Cervical Intervertebral Body Fusion Device, and the expanded market introduction of the Daytona Deformity Spinal System together with the Stainless Steel Spinal System, both of which were previously released on a limited basis in 2010. IBDs are small, [...]

Spinal USA, headquartered in Pearl, Mississippi, introduced two of the firm’s new spinal treatment devices at the November meeting in Chicago of the North American Spine Society (NASS). The two technologies, which recently received FDA 510(k) clearance, are the Vault Stand Alone ALIF System and the S-LOK PC Posterior Cervical System. Company officials say that the VAULT [...]

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 Surgery and Thompson MIS. This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, surgeons and their companies who’ve [...]

It is no secret that complex spine reconstruction involving fusions from the thoracic spine to the pelvis are high-risk procedures despite the use of more advanced surgical techniques. Nevertheless long fusions, extending from the thoracic spine to the pelvis, appear to be increasingly common. To look more closely at the outcomes of these kinds of [...]

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST by Http://OrhtoStreams.com 3Cor Medical, Inc. (Redwood City, CA)Distraction screws for plating and interbody fusions, founded in 2002 [ACQUIRED] Abbott Spine (Austin) (fka Spinal Concepts) acquired by Abbott Labs for $160M, then Abbott acquired SpineNext (France), then Abbott sold both spine companies to Zimmer for $360M, non-fusion Wallis system, ISD cervical disc replacement made [...]