Business of Orthopedics News

Stryker announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vertos Medical Inc., a company that specializes in minimally invasive solutions for chronic lower back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, according to a press release.

Vericel has received FDA approval to expand its MACI label to include MACI Arthro, an arthroscopic delivery of MACI to repair symptomatic knee cartilage defects, according to a company press release.

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Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. announced increased net sales in its second quarter of 2024 financial results, according to a company press release.

Bioventus Inc. reported increased revenue in its second quarter of 2024 financial results, according to a company press release.

DePuy Synthes announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance and launched its Velys active robotic-assisted spine system, according to a company press release.

G. Dean MacEwen, MD, former medical director of the Alfred I. duPont Institute, died on Aug. 6 at the age of 96 years.

Compared with lower-volume surgeons, high-volume surgeons had improved 5-year survivorship rates for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty despite being more likely to operate on older Medicare patients, according to published results.

In his keynote address at this year’s Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit, Thom Mayer, MD, FACEP, likened the health care practitioners in the audience to the professional football players he routinely treats.

Ninety years ago, the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery was founded in Chicago at the Palmer House Hotel – the location where the ABOS still administers the ABOS Part II Oral and Oral Recertification Examinations.