Here are 13 key notes on orthopedic and spine device companies over the past week.
Zimmer Biomet will acquire LDR Holding for $1 billion.
NuVasive entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Biotronic NeuroNetwork for $98 million in cash.
Medtronic acquired Responsive Orthopedics, a start-up aiming to sell lower cost knee and hip devices.
Medtronic is developing a robotic surgical system which the company anticipates will make a significant contribution to the company's overall revenue in fiscal 2019.
The Spine Center at Dignity Health St. Mary's Medical Center completed its 100th spine surgery with Mazor Robotics' Renaissance Guidance System.
Xtant Medical and Pinnacle Spine Group have entered a distribution agreement for Pinnacle's InFill Lateral Fusion System.
ChoiceSpine's titanium lumbar interbody fusion devices received FDA clearance.
Surgeons implanted the first of Atlanta-based Vertera Spine's COHERE Cervical Interbody Fusion System.
Avitus Orthopaedics launched its FDA-cleared Avitus Bone Harvester product.
InVivo Therapeutics named Christina Morrison to its board of directors.
MedShape added Doug Kohrs and Dennis Stripe to its board of directors.
Flower Orthopedics launched the Flower E-Kit and the IndicationCube.
Throughout the United States, surgeons have used Stryker's SurgiCount Safety Sponges in an estimated 10 million surgeries in the past five years.