Archive for December 2016
Vertera Spine’s COHERE Fusion Device Wins Award For Best Spine Technologies for 2016
ATLANTA, Nov. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Vertera Spine, a developer of medical devices using advanced biomaterial technologies, today announced that the COHERE® Cervical Interbody Fusion Device has been recognized by Orthopedics This Week as one of the Top Ten Best Spine Technologies for 2016. COHERE features Vertera Spine’s patented porous PEEK (polyetheretherketone) Scoria®biomaterial technology, a porous…
Read MoreFirst Robotic Spine Surgery Performed in Western New York
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Western New York is now on the map for cutting edge surgeries. The first robotic spine surgery in the region was successful at the St. Joseph campus of Sisters Hospital. Just by looking at her, you wouldn’t think Susan Floyd from Kenmore had serious spine surgery just a little over two weeks ago. She said, “I’ve…
Read MoreMiniaturising Surgical Robotics Design
Axsis technology heralds the next wave of surgical robotics innovation. Propelling surgical innovation to the next stage, product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants is showcasing Axsis – one of the smallest known robots for surgical use. With an external body the size of a drinks can and instruments only 1.8 millimetres in diameter, Axsis…
Read MoreHarvard Creates World’s First 3D Printed Heart-on-a-chip
3D Printed technology have awed our society in so many ways. They have created multiple advances that span from construction to food, but that’s not all that they’re capable of. Researchers at Harvard University have developed the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. This new fabrication method can very much change how data is…
Read MoreTop 5 Companies in Telemedicine
Telemedicine represents a growing segment of the healthcare sector, and telemedicine companies are reaping the benefits of its rising popularity. According to the Global Telemedicine Market Outlook 2020, published by RNCOS Consultancy, the global market for telemedicine technology was estimated at $17.8 billion as of 2014, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 18.4%…
Read MoreMighty Oak Medical Gets FIREFLY Spinal Navigation Guides Cleared for Universal Usage
Mighty Oak Medical is a medical device incubator that continues to focus on novel surgical solutions to solve problems for patients and surgeons. Our goal is to make spinal surgery safer, faster, and more efficient, by offering more intuitive solutions to the existing challenges surgeons face every day. While navigation is gradually becoming a standard of care in spinal…
Read MoreJury Levels $1B Verdict Against J&J’s DePuy Ortho in Pinnacle Hip Bellwether
UPDATED Dec. 2, 2016, with quotes from plaintiff’s and defense attorneys and DePuy Orthopedics. A federal jury in Dallas today ordered Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopedics to pay more than $1 billion to 6 plaintiffs claiming to be injured by its Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implants, according to the plaintiffs lawyers. Jurors in…
Read MoreNon-Surgical Weight Loss Balloon System: Interview with Obalon Therapeutics CEO
Medgadget recently reported on the FDA approval of the Obalon balloon system, which assists weight loss in obese patients who have failed to lose weight by other means and is an alternative to conventional gastric bypass surgery. The system has been developed by Obalon Therapeutics, a company out of Carlsbad, California, and consists of inflatable…
Read MoreWhy This Robotic Medical Device Belongs in a Museum
Two and a half years ago, employees at THINK Surgical, a robotic surgery development company in Fremont, California, were cleaning out a storage unit near their headquarters when they found an object that appeared to be an old robot arm. Upon closer look, Micah Forstein, an assistant manager at the company, realized that the arm…
Read MoreDeadly Infections Linked To Heart Surgery Device Highlight Holes In FDA Monitoring
At first, Vincent Karst, 55, was recovering well from his open-heart surgery in March 2015. He resumed the activities he enjoyed, such as visiting car shows and eating out. But some months later, his condition mysteriously deteriorated. By fall he was so short of breath, nauseated and overwhelmed by fatigue that he needed to be rehospitalized in York, Pa. There, doctors diagnosed a new problem: a serious mycobacterial infection that…
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