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Hospitals
FDA’s Program Alignment Addresses New Regulatory Challenges
By: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. Over the last year, a group of senior FDA leaders, under my direction, were tasked…
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Recon
Can physical therapy before hip or knee replacement surgery improve outcomes?
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Physical therapy after total hip (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is standard care for all…
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Financial
Hospital bottom lines: Why clinical trial enrollment is abysmal
October 8, 2014 12:27 pm by Meghana Keshavan To help reshape the severely flawed U.S. clinical trial system (see above),…
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Financial
Histogenics Files for IPO
Histogenics Corp. has filed its S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering…
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Recon
Miniature wireless device being developed by Stanford Bio-X team creates better way of studying chronic pain
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists and engineers is creating a small wireless device that will improve studies of chronic…
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Financial
Chicago mayor pushes medtech companies to relocate
By Robert Weisman CHICAGO – Mayor Rahm Emanuel, welcoming thousands of medical technology executives to his city, Tuesday suggested they…
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Biologics
A discussion on the role of biologics in orthopedics
PHILADELPHIA — At the Impact of Sports 2014 Summit, Nicola Maffulli, MD, MS, PhD, FRCS(Orth), offers his insight on the…
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Recon
Global medtech industry needs to better differentiate products or face commoditization
Despite ongoing commercial challenges in 2013, the global medtech industry’s financial performance held steady at the relatively low levels of…
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Financial
Better management of medical devices can cut hospital costs
October 5, 2014 | By Ron Shinkman The use of better supply management for medical devices can significantly reduce costs…
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Extremities
Medical device tax ‘exactly as we have feared,’ AdvaMed CEO Ubl says
October 8, 2014 by Brian Johnson The medical device industry’s fears about the medical device tax have borne out, making…
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Biologics
Scientists devise new way to extract bone-making cells from fat tissue
Within our fat lives a variety of cells with the potential to become bone, cartilage, or more fat if properly…
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Recon
THREE REASONS SURGEONS MAKE POOR DECISIONS
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. • Mon, October 6th, 2014 Three Reasons Surgeons Make Poor Decisions James G. Wright, M.D., M.P.H.,…
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Spine
Is medtech held to a double standard on innovation? A conversation with B. Braun’s Caroll Neubauer
October 7, 2014 by Brian Johnson MassDevice.com catches up with B. Braun Medical CEO Caroll Neubauer to discuss whether medtech…
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Financial
Medtronic shareholder sues over merger tax compensation plan
A $63 million plan to compensate top Medtronic executives and board members for the tax hit that comes with the…
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Extremities
High rate of complications following volar plating of distal radius fractures.
Knudsen R1, Bahadirov Z, Damborg F. Abstract INTRODUCTION: Fracture of the distal radius (DRF) is one of the most common…
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