Strike one up for the team from Warsaw, the “Orthopedic Capital of the World,” as Warsaw-based Zimmer Holdings, Inc. announced on November 10 that it has acquired Memphis-based ExraOrtho, Inc. Memphis is home to numerous orthopedic companies and enjoys a healthy competition with it’s neighbor to the north. ExtraOrtho makes an external fixation line called [...]

Last week MicroAire Surgical Instruments, of Charlottesville, Virginia, announced that management has launched the next-generation of its devices for endoscopic treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. Called the SlimLine, the instrument is a narrow cannula and blade assembly that allows surgeons to treat carpal tunnel syndrome through a tiny incision in the patient’s wrist. According to [...]

In a possible sign of things to come for device makers, Medtronic has cancelled five contracts with Novation LLC, one of the largest contracting companies in the nation. The contracts cover orthopedic and cardiovascular products. “With an eye on removing costs from the health care system, Medtronic believes that we will be best able to [...]

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi), an orthopedics company focused exclusively on serving patients and their physicians with technologies and treatments for joint repair (arthroplasty) and trauma reconstruction around the small bones & joints of the thumb, fingers, hand, wrist, elbow, toes and foot & ankle announced that it has received 510(k) pre-market [...]

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. is bringing its NexGen LPS-Flex knee with Prolong Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene (XLPE) to the U.S. The company, in a January 13 press release, says combining prolong polyethylene with its LPS-Flex knee provides a “revolutionary anteriorly positioned pivot near the entry point of the anterior cruciate ligament, replicating the anatomic center of knee [...]

The bone and tissue regeneration team at curasan Inc., the North American subsidiary of curasan AG, Germany, has penned an exclusive supply agreement with Michigan-based TransCorp Spine, Inc. The agreement pertains to Cerasorb Ortho block forms used to repair vertebral bone channels created during surgeries to decompress neural tissue in the spine. These block forms [...]

Stephen MacMillan must have happy feet and is dancing a jig in Kalamazoo. His company, Stryker Corporation, just announced an 8.8% increase in net sales to $1.99 billion for the fourth quarter of the year. Why shouldn’t he be happy? He’s jettisoned the troublesome OP-1, increased his device footprint by buying Ray Elliott’s (Boston Scientific) [...]