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Recon
With 3D Printing, Medical Devices Are Cool Again
by Dr. Michael Patton Editor’s note: Dr. Michael Patton is co-founder and CEO of Texas-based Medical Innovation Labs. The recent and successful…
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Extremities
ILLUMINOSS MEDICAL: TWO MORE PATENTS!
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. • Tue, December 16th, 2014 Twenty-five…that is the grand total number of U.S. patents owned by…
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Recon
THERAPY CAR REHABS PATIENTS WITH NEW HIPS, KNEES
Biloine W. Young • Mon, November 24th, 2014 Therapists at Virginia Mason Hospital and Seattle Medical Center have invented a…
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Financial
Electronic medical record and the threat of physician skill fade
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC As I watch the business world’s fascination with the electronic medical record (EMR) and all…
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Recon
EOS imaging Obtains FDA Approval for hipEOS, the First 3D Stereoradiographic Planning Software for Hip Arthroplasty
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EOS imaging (Paris:EOSI)(Euronext, FR0011191766 – EOSI), the pioneer in orthopaedic 2D/3D imaging, announced today that the U.S. Food and…
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Extremities
What’s it really like working at a startup?
by Tiger Buford Background – This article is written for all of the people who I have met over the years…
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Recon
Making the Case for Guidelines in Workers’ Compensation
Tom Farrell The push for evidence-based guidelines in workers’ compensation is understandable. Workers’ compensation is one of the few areas…
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Extremities
Making the Cut – Which surgeon you get matters — a lot. But how do we know who the good ones are?
“You can think of surgery as not really that different than golf.” Peter Scardino is the chief of surgery at…
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Spine
A Surgeon as Comfortable With a Paintbrush as She Is With a Scalpel
By COREY KILGANNON When Dr. Kathryn Ko is not operating on a brain, she is painting one. “It’s the most…
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Financial
Medtronic’s China Ambitions
Written By: Benjamin Shobert Ten years ago, Medtronic’s sales in China amounted to $50 million. Today, the company will sell more…
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Sports Medicine
Meniscus regenerated with 3-D printed implant
Personalized scaffold promotes tissue regeneration in sheep IMAGE: Left to right are: Sheep meniscus; 3-D model of meniscus obtained from…
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Biologics
BMP-7 Versus BMP-2 for the Treatment of Long Bone Nonunion
Janet D. Conway, MD; Lior Shabtai, MD; Alexandra Bauernschub, BS; Stacy C. Specht, MPA Abstract The authors compared the results…
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Extremities
Resident Duty Hour Limits Haven’t Improved Patient Safety
Megan Brooks Restrictions on resident duty hours do not appear to have had any significant effect on mortality or readmission…
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Financial
FDA Often Fails to Disclose Advisers’ Corporate Ties
By ED SILVERMAN Many of the physicians and other experts who sit on FDA advisory panels to review medical devices have…
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Biologics
MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROLS STEM CELL ACTIVITY
Biloine W. Young • Thu, December 11th, 2014 From a publication called The Engineer comes the suggestion that remotely controlled…
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