Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: LED-based UV irradiation safely prevents the loss of bone and muscle mass in mice; Coupling antibiotics with stem cells to fight off bone infections; Study: Unnecessary stress testing performed prior to knee and hip replacement surgeries.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: SCS reduces pain and motor symptoms in PD patients; Is rheumatoid arthritis two different diseases?; Lockdown impact: Worsening symptoms for people with bone, joint and muscle pain.
Smith+Nephew plc has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Extremity Orthopedics business of Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp. for $240 million in cash. The deal, which is slated to close around the end of this year, gives the London-based company a catalog of devices, implants and instruments that generated $90 million in revenue in 2019.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: New nanoparticle could overcome aggregation-caused quenching for cancer treatment; Epigenetic resistance to PARP inhibitors; Statins help pancreatic tumors go from bad to worse; Sit up straight: PBT coming to a chair near you.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Technology for printing customized neuroprostheses on a 3D bioprinter; AI could expand healing with bioscaffolds; AI detects osteoarthritis years before it develops; 'Bandage' developed to rebuild broken bone.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Restless nature of human spinal cord revealed by noninvasive functional imaging; Stronger bones thanks to heat and microbiota; Researchers use soy to improve bone cancer treatment.
The second day of the U.S. FDA’s orthopedic devices advisory panel included a proposal to down-classify semi-constrained toe joint prostheses as class II devices, but the panel was adamant that such devices be slotted in class III, with one panelist referring to the literature for these devices as “garbage.”
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: New drug shown to improve bone growth in children with achondroplasia; Failure to calibrate for ethnicity in fracture epidemiology would do more harm than good; Muscle aging: Stronger for longer; After Medicaid expansion, 'unmet need' for joint replacement surgery.
The agenda for the U.S. FDA’s Sept. 8-9 advisory hearing includes a proposed down-classification of bone growth stimulator (BGS) devices to class II, but while the proposal met some resistance from an industry group, the panel sided with the FDA and declared BGS units ready for prime time as 510(k) devices.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Implant choice more important than surgeon skill for hip replacement success; Vertebral body tethering shows clinical success as treatment for scoliosis; Hip fracture risk linked to nanoscale bone inflexibility; Bioventus reports first use of its Signfuse bioactive bone graft in strip format.