Very high level “tinkering”…Exactech, Inc. announced today that it is fully launching the Equinoxe Fx Plate after an extensive development process. In the April 28 news release, Kenneth Egol, M.D., professor and vice chair at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City and chief of the division of Orthopaedic Trauma, said that surgeons [...]

You might not have liked geometry, but due to the efforts of the ConforMIS team, damaged knees all over will benefit from it. The company is reporting receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for its iTotal CR Knee Replacement System (let the marketing begin!). As indicated by ConforMIS, its iTotal CR is the only true patient-specific [...]

Shares of Smith & Nephew surged on the London Stock Exchange on Monday, getting a boost from a report that the medical device maker had rejected a £7 billion, or $10.9 billion, takeover bid by Johnson & Johnson. On Saturday, the city editor of Sky News, Mark Kleinman, wrote on his blog that Johnson & Johnson had approached [...]

Thousands of lab, machine shop and operating room hours by 210 inventors and engineers resulted in 43 spine technology submissions to the 2nd annual Orthopedics This Week Spine Technology Awards.  Those submissions were then analyzed by 6 judges and the best 19 in 8 categories were selected to receive the crystal Best Spine Technology of 2010 [...]

Amedica Corporation is doubling the company’s distribution network with the acquisition U.S. Spine (USS) for an undisclosed amount of cash in a private transaction. The announcement by Amedica on September 21 stated that U.S. Spine has several technologies currently in the market that complement existing spinal implant and device product lines from Amedica. Some of [...]

In May 2009, Doug Kohrs, the President and CEO of Tornier, Inc. announced the first human implant of a shoulder arthroplasty prostheses using the company’s pyrocarbon technology. In early September 2010, Kohrs announced the first early clinical results of the first seven devices implanted between April 2009 and December 2009. Gilles Walch M.D., Director Centre [...]

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – A company is taking 100 jobs out of Southwest Florida because of a recent decision by the local government. Last week, Collier commissioners refused to let taxpayers vote on the $130 million Jackson Labs project after local company Arthrex offered to foot the $300 thousand referendum bill.  Commissioner Tom Henning voted [...]

Called iPASSAGE Retractor for Minimally Invasive Surgery, the iPASSAGE system is a tissue sparing retraction product that is touted for offering surgeons the ability to make smaller cuts, which of course means reduced recovery time, tissue damage and blood loss. Distributed through Integra’s Orthopedics division and thereafter Integra Spine, it joins a number of other [...]

There are no looms or coffee klatches involved in these weaving activities—just high-end medical equipment. Biomedical Structures LLC (BMS) has announced that it has expanded its textile engineering capabilities with a new purpose-built clean room for high-density weaving and advanced braiding infrastructure for polymer and wire materials. The company is also bringing on board new personnel [...]

Applied Spine Technologies, Inc’s. (AST) assets are for sale. Has FDA uncertainty claimed the scalp of another spine device company to go along with Disc Dynamics? The news of the sale came on September 13 with the announcement that the company has retained a broker to “solicit interest” for the acquisition of the company’s assets. [...]