BEDFORD, Mass., June 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ConforMIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFMS), a medical technology company that offers joint replacement implants customized to fit each patient's unique anatomy, today announced that their newest product to market, the iTotal® PS posterior-stabilized total knee replacement system, was named the winner of the Gold Stevie® Award in the Health
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 03, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SINTX Technologies (NASDAQ: SINT) today reported the independent publication of 30-year clinical outcomes of lumbar fusion surgeries, performed with silicon nitride implants. The paper titled “Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using Reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride Implants” appeared in the December 2018 edition of the World Neurosurgery journal, and the
Dec. 27, 2018 / By Anna Wilde Mathews and Melanie Evans Phoebe Putney Health System doesn’t want its doctors to send business to competitors. If they do, Phoebe makes sure their bosses know about it. Doctors working for the Albany, Ga.-based hospital system’s affiliated physician group get regular reports breaking down their referrals to specialists or services. One viewed
December 20, 2018 / FDA News Release The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Genetech, Inc. of San Diego, California and its president, Edwin N. Pinos for marketing stem cell products without FDA approval and for significant deviations from current good tissue practice (CGTP) and current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements, including some violations that may
PITTSBURGH, PA, December 5, 2018 // — Dr. Jocelyn Idema, Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at The Center for Disc Replacement Surgery at Advanced Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (AOR), recently implanted Centinel Spine’s newest generation of the prodisc L lumbar artificial disc replacement. The prodisc L® is a Total Disc Replacement (TDR) technology platform that offers a surgical alternative to spinal fusions. Patients usually
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Dec 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Overland Park Surgical Suites is a state of the art outpatient surgical center and is the first outpatient surgery center in the Midwest to offer patients a robotics-assisted alternative to traditional knee replacement surgery. "We were eager to bring the NAVIO robotics-assisted surgery to the area," said Scott Abraham, M.D.,
December 11, 2018 MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In2Bones Global, Inc. today announced the global launch of the unique, “see-through” PitStop®implant. Manufactured from a high-performance polymer called polyether ether ketone (PEEK), the PitStop® Implant is used to help facilitate the surgical correction of progressive flat foot deformity in both pediatric and adult populations. Flexible flatfoot is one of the most common deformities
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for expanded use of its Monolith®Corpectomy System, providing surgeons with a modular PEEK interbody solution for
LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IntraFuse, a start-up medical device company operated by Surgical Frontiers, is focused on advanced surgical devices for improving outcomes for orthopedic extremity procedures, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has recently granted the company a key patent related to its FlexThread™ Intramedullary Fracture Fixation system. US Patent 10,136,929
Jupiter, Florida, Dec. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JUPITER, FLORIDA (December 5, 2018) — Jupiter Medical Center is the first hospital in the southeastern United States to use SpineJack®, an implantable system that relieves the pain of acute vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), the most common fracture in patients with osteoporosis. The innovative device stabilizes and restores damaged
