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A group of physicians want to turn Las Vegas into a medical tourism destination. Imagine the possibilities and new marketing opportunities. Leave your fat in Vegas and go home with stem cells. Get that shoulder surgery and hit the one-armed bandits.
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Ortho sales tanked in the aftermath of The Great Recession. But 2012 is a new year. First Quarter sales reports from the “big five” were generally better than expected. Who won the sales competition for hips, knees and extremities for the quarter? Read it here.
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Smith & Nephew’s deal with Essex Woodlands to spin off its clinical therapies business into a new company, called Bioventus, raises the specter of a well-capitalized, nimble and aggressive biologic/injectables challenge to the metal and plastic implant business. Is SNN trying to obsolete itself? Well, better them than someone else. Here’s what’s happening.
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New Certification Requirements...Breakthrough Approach to Stimulate Bone Formation and Repair...Preventing Joint Replacement Surgery...First-of-Its-Kind Global Trauma Database Effort Launched...and more.
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Between 1950 and 2009, health care spending as a percent of U.S. GDP quadrupled. Those dollars paid for a Golden Age of Medicine. In the current era of fiscal conservancy could this Golden Age of innovation and science be at risk? A recent NEJM article tackled this very question. Here’s what they said.
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Survey says….orthopedics is weak in the knees but strong in the shoulders. Spine surgeons? They are one opinionated group. A survey of both orthopedic and neuro spine surgeons across 25 states uncovers some unexpected comments about Medtronic, NuVasive and other vendors. Now we know what they really think. And you will too.
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RSA Prevents Certain Revision Surgeries…Best Orthopedic Workplace? Gallup Makes Award...BONESUPPORT Wins Top European Technology Award...Practicing Medicine Where it Really Matters….and more.
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Synthes, Inc. is suing John Marotta, a former employee who makes and sells generic implants, for breach of contract. Marotta and his firm, Emerge Medical, Inc., are countersuing, accusing Synthes of trying to create a monopoly. What’s at stake? We find out.
