Spine | Orthopedics This Week - Part 43

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Is Trauma the New Spine?

Robin Young

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NuQu’s Promising Phase I Results

ISTO Technologies' NuQu cell-based biological therapy to treat lower back pain had no serious...

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NuQu’s Promising Phase I Results

ISTO Technologies' NuQu cell-based biological therapy to treat lower back pain had no serious...

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World’s Largest Ortho Association Is Chinese

In an effort to pool global resources and improve the skills of surgeons in developing nations, ...

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BMP Issue Not Going Away…Registries on the Rise…and More

Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed.

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World’s Largest Ortho Association Is Chinese

In an effort to pool global resources and improve the skills of surgeons in developing nations, ...

Providence Medical Lands Key FDA Clearance

Providence Medical Technology Inc. (PMT), a private corporation focused on developing minimally...

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FDA Clears SpineNet’s Cervical Cage

SpineNet, LLC, a manufacturer of spinal fusion implants, has received 510(k) clearance from the...

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An Open Letter to Senators Baucus and Grassley

Robin Young

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FDA Clears SpineNet’s Cervical Cage

SpineNet, LLC, a manufacturer of spinal fusion implants, has received 510(k) clearance from the...

Safety of Steroid Shots Questioned

How safe are epidural steroids shots when they are injected into the space around the spinal cord?...

OsteoMed Spine Adds New Implants

The second generation of OsteoMed Spine’s PrimaLok SP Interspinous Fusion System was on...

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Outcome Based Liability Ready or Not!…Ideal Treatment or Best Value?…an

Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed.

TowerLOX Awarded FDA 510(k) Clearance

A minimally invasive lumbar surgery system, called the TowerLOX, developed by Captiva Spine, ...

Calcium Plus D Cuts Fracture Rate

Women who took calcium and vitamin D cut their risk of vertebral fractures by 13%, according to...

Osseon Expands in Europe With Osseoflex SB

With the introduction of new products into Europe, European sales now account for over 40% of...

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The Ten Best New Spine Technologies of 2012

Robin Young

Paradigm Spine: PMA for Coflex

First in this, first in that! Paradigm Spine LLC has announced that the FDA has granted a...

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Two New FDA Rulings Expand Integra’s Product Offerings

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an expanded use for Integra LifeSciences Holdings...

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Two New FDA Rulings Expand Integra’s Product Offerings

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an expanded use for Integra LifeSciences Holdings...

Coflex Interlaminar Implant

The Right Trial – Coflex®

Robin Young

Vexim Records Record Year With SpineJack

Vexim, a French medical device firm specializing in the minimally invasive treatment of vertebral...

Alphatec Spends $15.2 Million for Phygen

Alphatec Holdings, Inc. parent firm of Alphatec Spine, Inc. is spending $15.2 million in cash and...

Amedica Launches New Fusion Devices

Amedica Corporation, a spinal and reconstructive implant manufacturer, has received 510(k)...

Ascendx Spine Enters EU VCF Market

Ascendx Spine is now in the market with their innovative line of vertebral compression fracture...

Chronic Sleep Loss=Bone Loss?

Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin, led by Carol Everson, Ph.D., professor of...

Spinal Elements Introduces Hero Allograft, Honors Donors

Product release with a purpose…Spinal Elements has announced its intention to improve the...

Of Paralyzed Mice and Men

It sounds too good to be true but British writer, Graham Smith, reports that a gel containing...

Silicon Nitride vs. Titanium or PEEK

Move over titanium (TI) and poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK)—there is a new challenger on the...

NLT SPINE: 510(k) Clearance for eSPIN

NLT SPINE is celebrating the announcement that its eSPIN powered discectomy system has received...