spinal cord damage

Devices & Diagnostics

Utah startup Amedica gets FDA clearance for interbody spinal fusion device system

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Amedica announced Thursday that it has received regulatory clearance for the second generation of an interbody fusion device system. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared its cervical and lumbar interbody fusion devices (IBF) made with a proprietary biomaterial. These devices and their design improvements will help surgeons perform minimally invasive […]

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Medical Megatrends Stem Cells — Part III

A cure for spinal cord injury? Diabetes? Macular degeneration? Hope or just hype? There are now some clinical trials using embryonic stem cells to treat serious diseases for which no other good therapy is currently available. But this is just the beginning of a major medical megatrend that will blossom forth in the coming years. […]