Ananda Devices CEO talks about plans for expanding its organ-on-a-chip tech from researching spinal cord injuries to neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
After dismissing robotics in orthopedics, Zimmer Biomet is jumping on the bandwagon.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Bioventus develops orthopedic products designed to treat conditions affecting muscles, bones and joints. Its top sellers include a therapy for fractures and osteoarthritis,
Dr. Todd O’Brien is trying to develop and commercialize a smartphone app that can be used at the point of care to identify fractures on the athletic field, combat field or any other site of traumatic injury.
LDR said cervical disc replacement typically occurs in patients who are too young to receive Medicare, making Mobi-C reimbursement a point of contention with private players.
LDR would be the third Austin company Zimmer has purchased in the last 13 years. An article by the Austin American-Statesman pointed out that Zimmer has twice before bought local firms, only to close and consolidate operations in the years after the sale, costing the city more than 500 jobs.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Also, Roswell Park Cancer Institute has formed a for-profit spinoff company, Global Biotechnology & Cancer Therapeutics. Health Outcome has launched a crowdsourcing platform for patients to rate their treatment.
The partnership is a win for Fitchet’s plan to turn around J&J’s slow-growing device unit by partnering with external players.
A look at how telehealth can be harnessed for orthopedic patients and their families.
Healthcare startup Augmedix raised $4.1 million for its Google Glass platform to help physicians more easily enter and retrieve data from patients electronic health records.
3D medical animation services have emerged as a groundbreaking tool in the healthcare industry, revolutionizing the way medical concepts are taught, understood, and marketed.
The retirement-aged baby boomer population coupled with the push to reduce healthcare costs is driving technology to support the aging-in-place trend. It’s seen as a cheaper alternative to nursing homes and preferable for many seniors who don’t want their lives disrupted. Yet, there’s a need to balance this with certain tools to minimize the risk […]
Borrowing concepts from 3D printing, scientists in Australia say they’ve come up with a device and a technique that could allow surgeons to precisely deliver live cells and growth factors directly onto damaged bones to help regenerate bone and cartilage. The “bio pen” holds and dispenses living cell material that’s housed inside a polymer and […]
From models of the human body to product prototypes to human tissue for cancer research, the healthcare industry has latched onto 3-D printing and is expected to be one of the top industries in driving growth of the 3-D printing market over the next decade. Boston-based Lux Research estimates that today’s $777 million 3-D printing […]
It was the snap seen around the world, but for the surgeons who operated on Kevin Ware, it was pretty much business as usual. Don’t worry, I won’t post the nauseating video of the University of Louisville basketball player’s right tibia buckling and protruding through his skin during Sunday’s game. But I will show this […]
The 3-D printing technology hits just keep on coming. Everyone and their brother seems to be testing the capabilities of 3-D printers for medical applications creating artificial ears, vaccines, feet and hearts. But a skull produced with a 3-D printer cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration just last month was used in a […]