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		<title>OrthoSpineNews will be at AAOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's right! We will be at AAOS and looking to conduct interviews with senior leaders of emerging companies. If you have a technology that you would like to see get some press on this site, send us an email at ...]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;G To Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It&#8217;s Free To Advertise On Facebook   Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/pg-ceo-to-lay-off-1600-after-discovering-its-free-to-advertise-on-facebook-and-google-2012-1#ixzz1l3FEfe9c</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reality appears to have finally arrived at Procter &#38; Gamble, the world's largest marketer, whose $10 billion annual ad budget has hurt the company's margins. P&#38;G said it would lay off 1,600 staffers, including marketers, as part of a cost-cutting ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bradshaw Medical Announces Two New Patents and RECORD Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bradshaw Press Release]]></description>
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		<title>On (and Off) the Record &#8211; RY Ortho</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear OTW Reader: Has Dr. Javad Parvizi found THE solution for infection detection?…Applicant boom at HSS (and elsewhere)…James Lightman New VP at Wright…Are theresurprises in store for young orthopedists flocking to hospital employment?…and more. New Kit Rules Out Infection! Javad Parvizi, M.D., director of research ...]]></description>
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		<title>Regen Biologics slams FDA for revoking Menaflex approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regen Biologics blasted the Food and Drug Administration Monday for its decision to revoke its 2-year-old approval of the company’s leading product, a patch to repair the knee’s meniscus tissue. Sold under the name Menaflex, the patch initially came under ...]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Rescinds Approval of Menaflex Knee Replacement Device</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FDA has rescinded approval for the Menaflex Collagen Scaffold knee replacement, saying that the orthopedic implant was incorrectly fast-tracked for approval without being appropriately vetted by the agency’s researchers. The agency is planning to issue a Menaflex knee implant recall ...]]></description>
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		<title>OSN Launches Job Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OrthoSpineNews is proud to release a new job board!! We have seen steady growth in our readership and are now serving news to approximately 10,000 people per month!!! According to what study you are looking at, around 20% of employees ...]]></description>
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		<title>Medtronic Signs Agreement to Acquire Osteotech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when we thought we would see some interesting theater within Osteotech, we were right. I wonder if this is what the BOD dispute was about the entire time. Click below to read the entire press release.]]></description>
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		<title>Pound for Pound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been an interesting week in Spine/Biologics. You may remember when Ramius decided to go on the offensive against Orthofix last year regarding the perceived mismanagement/acquisition of Blackstone. Apparently, some other investors thought highly of that tactic as investors ...]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Call it a Comeback…</title>
		<link>http://www.orthospinenews.com/don%e2%80%99t-call-it-a-comeback%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had the great joy to post a great many articles in recent weeks announcing money raised for multiple early stage companies in our space. I wanted to put a quick recap for those counting at home. Just perhaps ...]]></description>
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		<title>Predictability Competes with Confidence in 510(k) Revamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDA’s massive revamp of its battered 510(k) market-entry program for medical devices has emerged as a struggle between two primary competing goals: industry’s need for better predictability in the system, and the public’s need for restored confidence in the process at the agency.]]></description>
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		<title>I Guess Not…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Lanx made an announcement that Michael DeMane was taking over as Chairman and CEO of the company. This was widely viewed as a terrific move for a company.  An announcement went out today that he has decided against joining the company. So what happened?]]></description>
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		<title>House issues six-month reprieve on Medicare cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives approves a six-month stay in a 21 percent cut to Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians. Nearly a week after a 21 percent cut to the Medicare reimbursement rate for doctors went into effect, the U.S. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Surge in Complex Spinal Fusions Questioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as the frequency of decompression surgeries has fallen, the rate of complex fusion procedures for the treatment of spinal stenosis has jumped 15-fold, a new study shows.]]></description>
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		<title>The Next IPO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sandberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expects to trade on Nasdaq Global Markets under symbol "TRNX"

Medical device company Tornier B.V. filed with the U.S. regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $205 million in an initial public offering.]]></description>
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