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Financial
Healthcare spending in the US grows at slowest rate since 1960
By Elise Viebeck U.S. healthcare spending grew 3.6 percent in 2013, the slowest rate on record since 1960, federal health…
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Financial
Ex-ArthroCare CFO wants a new trial too
December 3, 2014 by Brad Perriello Ex-ArthroCare CFO Michael Gluk, convicted along with former CEO Michael Baker of a nearly…
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Biologics
Scottish synthetic Bone Graft company secures $4.8m funding
SIRAKOSS, an innovative medical device company based in Edinburgh and Aberdeen today announced it has secured $4.8m (£3.1m) in Series-A…
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Extremities
US Medical Innovations, LLC Announces New Distribution Agreement With CrossLink Surgical, LLC
TAKOMA PARK, Md., Dec. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — US Medical Innovations (USMI), a Takoma Park, M.D. based biomedical device sales and…
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Extremities
Autocam Medical Acquires Southeastern Technology
Grand Rapids, MI, December 2, 2014 – Autocam Medical Devices, LLC (Autocam Medical) announced the completion of its acquisition through…
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Sports Medicine
SuperSonic Imagine Receives FDA 510k Clearance for New Musculoskeletal and Vascular Ultrasound Probes
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, Dec. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — SuperSonic Imagine (Euronext: SSI, FR0010526814), a company specializing in ultrasound medical imaging, is pleased…
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Financial
Why Medicare won’t force penalties on ACOs that don’t save money
By Melanie Evans | December 2, 2014 Medicare‘s accountable care contracts have proliferated fast and the program is poised to expand…
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Extremities
Breast, lung and colon cancers may be prevented by widely used osteoporosis drugs
The most commonly used medications for osteoporosis worldwide, bisphosphonates, may also prevent certain kinds of lung, breast and colon cancers,…
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Recon
ACL/PCL PRESERVING KNEE SET TO SURGE IN JOINT REPLACEMENT WORLD
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. • Tue, December 2nd, 2014 Quieter, ACL/PCL Preserving, More Natural Knee! A team of joint preservation…
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Robotics
St. Mary’s Medical Center adds Mazor Renaissance robot-assisted system to Spine Center
Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center has added the Mazor Robotics Renaissance™ computer-generated guidance system to its multidisciplinary Spine Center.…
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Sports Medicine
Meniscal surgery may increase risk of osteoarthritis, cartilage loss
A popular surgery to repair meniscal tears may increase the risk of osteoarthritis and cartilage loss in some patients, according…
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Recon
HSS: THR “EXCELLENT FOR” PATIENTS UNDER 35
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. • Mon, November 24th, 2014 How do young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who undergo…
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Hospitals
DOCS PROTEST “PUTINCARE” IN THE STREETS
Walter Eisner • Mon, December 1st, 2014 More than 6,000 doctors and nurses took to Moscow streets on November 23,…
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Extremities
Local amputee pushes for change, featured by CDC
By: Abby Welsh For Dave Dunville, losing his left leg about 10 years ago felt like he was losing a family…
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