15 News Updates for Spine & Orthopedic Device Companies

Here are 15 recent news updates for spine and orthopedic device companies. San Francisco-based SpineGuard received FDA 510(k) clearance for three products to complete its PediGuard platform of single-use drilling instruments for pedicle screw pilot holes.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Class 1 recall for Stryker Spine's OASYS Midline Occiput Plate.

Minneapolis-based Medtronic announced the development of the Medtronic Hospital Solution, a business focused on hospital partnerships to increase operational efficiency.

San Diego-based NuVasive expanded and relocated its United Kingdom office.

Steven Epstein joined the board of directors at Sunrise, Fla.-based OrthoSensor, a medical device company focused on orthopedic devices for musculoskeletal diseases.

The first human implantation of Alachua, Fla.-based RTI Surgical’s map3 Cellular Allogeneic Bone Graft took place last week.

Medtronic purchased disease management and patient monitoring firm Cardiocom for $200M.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration denied Arlington, Tenn.-based Wright Medical Group's application to use the Augment Bone Graft for an alternative to autografts in foot and ankle fusions.

Parsippany, N.J.-based Precision Spine entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Japanese operating equipment manufacturer Mizuho Ikakogyo.

Redwood City, Calif.-based CoAlign Innovations received FDA market clearance for the AccuLIF XL lateral expandable interbody fusion device line.

Medtronic reported a 10 percent increase in net earnings for the first quarter of 2014, which ended July 26, though revenue from spine dropped to $765 million; BMP revenue alone decreased 12 percent.

Irvine, Calif.-based Interventional Spine received a patent related to the Opticage expandable fusion cage and PerX360 system for minimally invasive lumbar interbody fusion.

InVivo Therapeutics Holdings appointed Michael J. Astrue as interim CEO and Sean Moran as acting CFO in the wake of former CEO and CFO Francis Reynolds resigning his posts due to a medical condition.

East Providence, R.I.-based IlluminOss Medical appointed Dwayne Montgomery, MBA, as senior vice president of sales and marketing.

Austin, Texas-based LDR's Mobi-C Cervical Disc has been approved by the FDA for two-level indications, making it the only cervical disc in the country approved to treat more than one level in the cervical spine.

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