K2M Group Holdings (Leesburg, Virginia), a company focused on developing complex spine technologies, techniques and minimally invasive procedures, reported the completion of the first surgical case using the company's Capri Corpectomy Cage System, an expandable vertebral body replacement device that provides structural stability following a corpectomy or vertebrectomy.

Endovascular therapy for acute stroke was perhaps redeemed this week, as results from the Multicenter Randomized Clinical trial of Endovascular treatment for Acute ischemic stroke in the Netherlands (MR CLEAN) were published online and are slated to appear in the January 1 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The study shows that the addition of stent thrombectomy clot removal to pharmaceutical treatment for patients suffering an acute ischemic stroke (AIS), stent thrombectomy provided a significant clinical benefit when compared to pharmaceutical treatment alone.

Medtronic (Minneapolis) reported that it has received approval of two additional Attain Performa left ventricular (LV) quadripolar leads, which can be paired with the Medtronic Viva Quad XT and Viva Quad S cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) to treat patients with heart failure.

My first exposure to Google Glass was in the summer of 2013, when the Medical Device Daily and BioWorld Today staff were given a chance to demo the technology at the Thomson Reuters’ Atlanta office. My first reaction to Glass, was that this was something straight out of those old Dragon Ball Z cartoons that I use to watch when I was in college. You know the ones where the character would wear glasses and a glance through the fictional technology would give the stats on his opponent, or maybe not and I’m the only anime fan here - but...