Here are 19 key notes on orthopedic and spine device companies over the past week.
Stryker is recalling nearly 17,000 units of five of its orthopedic products including rHead, uHead, Sigmoid Notch, Remotion and Radio Capitellum products.
Exactech shares dropped 0.66 percent during the week of Aug. 17 to Aug. 21 and dropped 7.25 percent in the last four weeks.
NuVasive plans to build a new medical device manufacturing facility. The facility is projected to create hundreds of new jobs and will employ more than 300 people on a permanent basis.
Xtant Medical's wholly owned subsidiary Bacterin has received FDA 510(k) clearance of its OsteoSelect PLUS Demineralized Bone Matrix Putty.
Amedica released the silicon nitride lateral lumbar interbody fusion device, Valeo II LL interbody fusion device. Amedica's device will be commercially available in mid-September this year.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a final order settling claims that Zimmer Holdings' acquisition of Biomet is anticompetitive. Zimmer Holdings' acquisition of Biomet is valued at $13.35 billion.
Dupaco will partner with Edison Nation Medical, a Charlotte, N.C.-based healthcare open innovation marketplace, to search for new surgical and anesthesia products.
MicroPort Orthopedics created the Profemur Preserve Hip Stem, a short stem for bone and tissue preserving surgical techniques.
ulrich medical USA in Chesterfield, Mo., will expand its workforce in the United States to meet the spine implant business demand.
ApiFix plans to open new scoliosis treatment centers in France, Italy and the Netherlands next month.
Mainstay Medical received a new patent for ReActiv8 system, an implantable neurostimulation system designed to treat disabling chronic low back pain.
The first surgeries using Conventus Orthopaedic's PH Cage have been successfully completed in the United States and Europe. The device works to provide robust fixation and prevent further collapse of a shoulder fracture.
Providence Medical Technology reached $12 million in new financing.
Xtant Medical Holdings will present at the Rodman Renshaw 17th Annual Global Investment Conference.
The National Institute on Aging, of the National Institutes of Health, has given SPR Therapeutics a $1.6 million grant. SPR Therapeutics will use to grant to advance clinical research related to its non-narcotic pain management system for knee replacement surgery patients.
Greatbatch is buying Lake Region Medical for approximately $730 million in cash and stock. The acquisition is the latest in a string of medical device company mergers in 2015. Lake Region Medical develops cardio and vascular products as well as advances surgical products, which includes spine and joint reconstruction devices.
OrthoPediatrics elected CFO Fred L. Hite to its board.
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