August 16, 2010 – 11:03 am
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Orthofix International (NASDAQ: OFIX) (the Company) announced today that its Sports Medicine Division, Breg, has launched the FUSION® XT knee brace with its innovative new AirTech™ system. Designed to improve comfort and fit, AirTech is a complete system of air mesh vents and grooved channel frame pads that increase airflow throughout the brace… Continue reading »
Oxford, UK – 29 July 2010 – Orthox Limited, the tissue repair company using silk technology, today announced two monetary awards worth £469k from the Technology Strategy Board to help drive its preclinical and clinical programmes.
Orthox is developing a range of novel orthopaedic products for the repair of knee cartilage. The Company’s core… Continue reading »
Providence, R. I. (Vocus) July 18, 2010
Nearly $30 million a year would be saved in hospital charges if early rather than delayed ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction surgery was performed on pediatric patients, according to a study presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode… Continue reading »
ROSEMONT, Ill., July 15, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-AAOS Issues Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treating Glenohumeral Joint Osteoarthritis
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has approved and released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on “The Treatment of Glenohumeral Joint Osteoarthritis.” This major joint in the shoulder — the ball and socket joint — is… Continue reading »
Fall River, MA, July 6, 2010, NuOrtho Surgical, Inc., a developer of leading edge surgical instruments, received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration clearance to market its Ceruleau™ surgical probe in the United States.
(PRWEB) July 14, 2010 — Ceruleau™, is a 3.5 mm arthroscopic radio frequency (RF) electrosurgical probe
Law360, New York (June 21, 2010) — A federal judge has granted medical device maker Smith & Nephew PLC a permanent injunction on top of the $5.2 million infringement award in its suit against rival Arthrex Inc., but allowed the defendant to continue selling the knee surgery device pending an appeal.
Judge T. John… Continue reading »
San Diego, CA, May 25, 2010: KFx Medical Corporation announced today it has received FDA 510k clearance for product(s) used in a wide variety of arthroscopic tenodesis knee procedures such as: anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), and Medial Patellofemoral Ligament (MPFL) reconstruction.
KFx Medical received 510k clearance from the Food and Drug
April 12, 2010 – 11:45 am
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Orthofix International (NASDAQ: OFIX) announced today that its sports medicine division, Breg, ranked 27th among businesses in Mexico in the Great Place to Work® Institute’s survey for 2010. The Breg Mexico facility, located in Mexicali, received top honors for its positive culture and work environment. The facility’s 2010 ranking was higher than its… Continue reading »
MELVILLE, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bovie Medical Corporation (the “Company”) (NYSE-AMEX Symbol: BVX), a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, today announced the Company received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its proprietary BOSS™ bipolar sintered steel coagulation device. The BOSS™ is the latest device based on Bovie’s saline enhanced sintered steel technology… Continue reading »
Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s… Continue reading »
Exactech, Inc., a developer and producer of bone and joint restoration products for hip, knee, shoulder, spine and biologic materials, has announced that the company has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the company’s Equinoxe Platform Fracture Stem, the latest addition to the company’s shoulder arthroplasty line… Continue reading »
By Dimitrios Christoforou, MD; Alexander Golant, MD; Paul J. Ort, MD
ORTHOPEDICS 2010; 33:202
Abstract
Managing skeletal metastatic disease can be a challenging task for the orthopedic surgeon. In patients who have poor survival prognoses or are poor candidates for extensive reconstructive procedures, management with intralesional curettage and stabilization with bone cement with or without… Continue reading »
February 26, 2010 – 7:32 pm
SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Musculoskeletal Imaging Consultants (MSKIC) announces release of “Inside Business with Fred Thompson” documentary. MSKIC accomplishes Obama challenge of “more for less” by leveraging technology and bypassing obstructions to health information sharing.
President Obama challenged the medical industry to improve quality and decrease Medicare health expenditures by improving health information sharing and… Continue reading »
February 1, 2010 – 5:11 pm
ANDOVER, Mass., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Smith & Nephew’s ( SNN); (LSE: SN) Endoscopy Division today announced that the company has been awarded a three-year contract (effective February 15, 2010) from HealthTrust Purchasing Group as a supplier of arthroscopic shaver blades to its membership nationwide. Smith & Nephew DYONICS™ shaver blades are used in hundreds of thousands of… Continue reading »
January 29, 2010 – 3:57 pm
EDINA, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tornier, Inc., a global leader in extremities and sports medicine orthopaedics, and LifeCell™ Corporation, a KCI Company (NYSE: KCI - News), announced today the first 13 patients have been enrolled in a multi-center clinical trial to document the clinical value of Conexa™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix for the surgical repair of large rotator cuff… Continue reading »
