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Vitamin D supplementation in healthy kids pointless: Study

According to a Cochrane Systematic Review released on October 6th, yesterday vitamin D supplements when given to healthy children with normal vitamin D levels does not improve bone density at the hip, lumbar spine, forearm or in the body as a whole.

6 Oct 2010

Accuray announces 100,000th patient treated with CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

Accuray Incorporated, a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that the 100,000th patient has been treated with the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System, a non-invasive alternative to surgery for the treatment of both cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body. One in four patients treated with CyberKnife radiosurgery received treatment during Accuray's fiscal 2010, which ran July 2009 to June 2010.

6 Oct 2010

Pioneer Surgical receives patent for nanOss technology

Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc., a global medical device provider in orthopaedics, spine, and biologics, is proud to announce the United States Patent Office has reissued a patent further strengthening Pioneer's market position in nanocrystalline derived products used in orthopaedics.

6 Oct 2010

LDR expands lumbar VerteBRIDGE platform

LDR, a total spine solution company, announced today the expansion of its lumbar VerteBRIDGE product offering following 2 years of successful clinical use of the ROI-A® ALIF Cage. The new applications offer a complete range of alternatives to currently adopted lateral approaches. The new direct lateral and oblique lumbar systems have been used successfully in Europe in more than 100 cases.

6 Oct 2010

Medtronic announces U.S. launch of VERTEX SELECT Reconstruction System Posted Screw Module

Medtronic, Inc. today announced the U.S. launch of the VERTEX SELECT® Reconstruction System Posted Screw Module. The announcement was made at the 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society (NASS) in Orlando, Fla.

6 Oct 2010

Orthovita's Cortoss Bone Augmentation study results to be presented at NASS Annual Meeting

Orthovita, Inc.an orthobiologics and biosurgery company, is pleased to announce that Hyun W. Bae, M.D., of The Spine Institute at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, will present an abstract entitled, Correlation of Early Pain and Long-Term Functional Results from a Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled FDA-IDE Vertebroplasty Trial,at the 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society (NASS) being held October 5-9, 2010 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

6 Oct 2010

FDA clears Integra LifeSciences' Vu aPOD Prime anterior lumbar interbody fusion device

Integra LifeSciences announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Vu aPOD™ Prime anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) device.

6 Oct 2010

Study finds usage of advanced radiology in emergency department increases

From 1998 to 2007, the use of CT or MRI scans in emergency departments for injury-related conditions increased about 3-fold without a similar increase in the prevalence of the diagnosis of certain life-threatening trauma-related conditions, according to a study in the October 6 issue of JAMA.

6 Oct 2010

Accuray receives SBIR grant to develop high-energy X-ray source for Homeland Security applications

Accuray Incorporated, a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that the company was awarded a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the U.S. Government to be used toward further development of a high-energy X-ray source for Homeland Security applications.

6 Oct 2010

Medtronic launches new KYPHON Express Curette for scraping or scoring bone in the spine

Medtronic Inc. today announced the launch of the new KYPHON® Express™ Curette for scraping or scoring bone in the spine, including during treatment of vertebral compression fractures with minimally invasive KYPHON® Balloon Kyphoplasty.

6 Oct 2010

Novel invasive surgery for children with scoliosis may eliminate need for spinal fusion

A novel minimally invasive surgery for young children living with a difficult-to-treat progressive form of scoliosis, known as juvenile idiopathic scoliosis, may eliminate the need for spinal fusion later in adolescence, according to new research by surgeons from Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo. The study was presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco.

6 Oct 2010

ISTO announces completion of enrollment in NuQu Phase I clinical study for discogenic back pain

ISTO Technologies, Inc., an orthobiologics company with a cell-based platform for cartilage regeneration, announced today the completion of patient enrollment in the Phase I clinical study for NuQu™, an injectable formulation of juvenile chondrocytes designed for the treatment of discogenic back pain. The study included 15 patients enrolled at two clinical sites. All patients enrolled in the trial suffered from persistent discogenic back pain and disability despite undergoing previous traditional conservative therapy.

5 Oct 2010

SpinalMotion announces completion of enrollment in Kineflex lumbar artificial disc study

SpinalMotion, Inc., developer of the investigational Kineflex® lumbar and Kineflex®|C cervical disc implants for treating patients with degenerative disc disease (DDD), today reported that it has completed enrollment in an international clinical study evaluating the Kineflex lumbar artificial disc inserted via a minimally invasive lateral approach. The data from the study will be used to support regulatory submissions for international commercialization.

5 Oct 2010

Medyssey Spine fourth-quarter 2010 sales increase 112%

Medyssey Co., Ltd. (Medyssey Spine) today announced a record 112 percent increase in sales in Q4 2010 compared to Q3 2009. Medyssey Spine, privately held, reports year-to-date sales are up 73 percent over 2009, and the company is on pace to achieve its seventh consecutive year of market share growth in the spine market.

5 Oct 2010

Ceremed's implantable polymer material receives Best New Technology for Spine Care award

Ceremed's patented implantable polymer material known as AOC won Orthopedics This Week's annual award for Best New Technology for Spine Care in 2010 in the Biomaterials category.

5 Oct 2010

Orthopedics This Week presents 2010 Spine Technology Awards to Axial Biotech

Axial Biotech, Inc., a company revolutionizing spine care through the development of molecular diagnostic technologies, was selected as a winner at the 2010 Spine Technology Awards.

5 Oct 2010

Study finds 50% increase in ATV-related brain and spinal injuries

Brain and spinal cord injuries related to all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) appear to be increasing, reports a study in the October issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.

5 Oct 2010

$Osseon receives second patent NOA for spinal vertebral compression fracture technology$

Osseon receives second patent NOA for spinal vertebral compression fracture technology

Osseon Therapeutics, Inc., a biomedical device company based in Santa Rosa, California, received its second patent Notice of Allowance (NOA) for its spinal vertebral compression fracture (VCF) technology.

5 Oct 2010

Merck to appeal against jury verdict in retrial of federal FOSAMAX case

Merck & Co., Inc. today said it will appeal a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that reduced the jury verdict from $8 million to $1.5 million but denied Merck's request for judgment in its favor or a new trial in the case of Boles v. Merck, a retrial of a federal FOSAMAX case.

5 Oct 2010

Titan Spine to release new Endoskeleton TC system in first-quarter 2011

Titan Spine announced that it will begin full commercial release of its new Endoskeleton® TC system first quarter of 2011. The Endoskeleton® TC is an interbody fusion device for the cervical spine. The product received 510(k) clearance in July of this year and has been in limited market release since early August. The device has an acid etched titanium surface and is biomechanically designed to promote spinal fusion.

4 Oct 2010

Spine News and Research

Vitamin D supplementation in healthy kids pointless: Study

Accuray announces 100,000th patient treated with CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

Pioneer Surgical receives patent for nanOss technology

LDR expands lumbar VerteBRIDGE platform

Medtronic announces U.S. launch of VERTEX SELECT Reconstruction System Posted Screw Module

Orthovita's Cortoss Bone Augmentation study results to be presented at NASS Annual Meeting

FDA clears Integra LifeSciences' Vu aPOD Prime anterior lumbar interbody fusion device

Study finds usage of advanced radiology in emergency department increases

Accuray receives SBIR grant to develop high-energy X-ray source for Homeland Security applications

Medtronic launches new KYPHON Express Curette for scraping or scoring bone in the spine

Novel invasive surgery for children with scoliosis may eliminate need for spinal fusion

ISTO announces completion of enrollment in NuQu Phase I clinical study for discogenic back pain

SpinalMotion announces completion of enrollment in Kineflex lumbar artificial disc study

Medyssey Spine fourth-quarter 2010 sales increase 112%

Ceremed's implantable polymer material receives Best New Technology for Spine Care award

Orthopedics This Week presents 2010 Spine Technology Awards to Axial Biotech

Study finds 50% increase in ATV-related brain and spinal injuries

Osseon receives second patent NOA for spinal vertebral compression fracture technology

Merck to appeal against jury verdict in retrial of federal FOSAMAX case

Titan Spine to release new Endoskeleton TC system in first-quarter 2011

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