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Spine
Orthobond Supports Hospital for Special Surgery’s Presentation of New Landmark Study on Bacteria in Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery at 2024 NASS Annual Meeting
This study reinforces the risk bacteria poses on the safety and wellbeing of patients in the surgical room and the…
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Biologics
First Study to Visually Capture Biofilm Structure of Retrieved Implants from Spine Patients with Pseudarthrosis
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. If seeing is believing, then researchers from the University of Toledo, Primus Super Speciality Hospital, the…
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Biologics
New Weapon Against SSIs, Bacterial Infection?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. With bacterial resistance an ongoing issue, surgeons need more tools to combat this scourge. A new…
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Biologics
Why Antibiotic Resistance Is More Worrisome Than Ever
May 14, 2020 / SUSAN BRINK A health crisis is rapidly unfolding worldwide. It causes suffering and death, costs billions…
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How One Pitt Lab is Tackling Joint Infection
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., January 16, 2020 Kenneth Urish, M.D., PhD Kenneth Urish, MD, PhD is Associate Medical Director…
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Biologics
Creating a slippery slope on the surface of medical implants
November 1, 2016 Implanted medical devices such as left ventricular-assist devices for patients with heart failure or other support systems…
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Hospitals
Bacteria-Killing Wound Dressing Gets FDA Clearance
Mon, 08/08/2016 – by University of Wisconsin-Madison Imbed Biosciences received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market its patented…
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FDA Applies Genome Sequencing in Outbreak Investigation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently put whole genome sequencing technology — which maps the entire DNA sequences of…
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