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Pioneer launches Bigfoot ALIF implant for lumbar procedures

Pioneer Surgical Technology today announces the market launch of the Pioneer Advantage portfolio of allograft products including a large ALIF interbody, Bigfoot. Pioneer Advantage products include machined allografts for cervical and anterior lumbar procedures as well as demineralized strips and cubes for use in various spinal and general orthopaedic surgeries.

7 Oct 2010

Center for Injury Research and Policy awarded $38.6M to expand METRC

The Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded $38.6 million by the Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program of the U.S. Department of Defense to expand its Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium.

7 Oct 2010

Integra Total Wrist Fusion System to be featured at ASSH Annual Meeting

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today that it is featuring the Integra Total Wrist Fusion System at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) on October 7-9, in Boston, Massachusetts.

7 Oct 2010

Role of TGF-ß in cancer diseases

During this year's BIOTECHNICA exhibition, the international biotech news magazine „GEN - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News yesterday on 5 October 2010, held an information event with subsequent panel discussion featuring the topic TGF-ß an important target in cancer diseases.

7 Oct 2010

Soy germ-based nutritional supplement helps to manage menopausal symptoms

A new women-s health, whole soy germ-based nutritional supplement containing Natural S-equol reduced the frequency of moderate to severe hot flashes and reduced muscle and joint pain in the first study of its kind among postmenopausal U.S. women, according to peer-reviewed data presented as a poster presentation at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Annual Meeting.

7 Oct 2010

Paper describes new method for studying bacterial infection of orthopedic implants

A research team, co-headed by Dr. Woo Lee and Dr. Hongjun Wang of Stevens Institute of Technology, has published a paper describing a new method that generates three-dimensional tissue models for studying bacterial infection of orthopedic implants. Dr. Joung-Hyun Lee of Stevens, and Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan of the New Jersey Dental School, are co-authors of the research.

7 Oct 2010

Vitamin D deficiency may impact orthopaedic procedure outcomes

Forty-three percent of patients scheduled to undergo orthopaedic surgery have insufficient levels of vitamin D and two out of five of those patients had levels low enough to place them at risk for metabolic bone disease, according to a study published this month in the October 6th issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS).

7 Oct 2010

American Cancer Society awards 94 national research, training grants to 70 institutions nationwide

The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 94 national research and training grants totaling $46,633,000 to 70 institutions nationwide in the first of two grants cycles for 2011.

7 Oct 2010

'The Pittsburgh Protocol' enables reduction of multiple anti-rejection drugs after transplantation

The Pittsburgh Protocol is unique in utilizing bone marrow cells to enable reduction of the need for multiple anti-rejection drugs after transplantation. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is currently the only transplantation center in the world to offer it. An early report of the initial experience with the "Pittsburgh Protocol" in three recipients of upper extremity transplants was presented during the 2010 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

7 Oct 2010

Vitamin D supplementation in healthy kids pointless: Study

According to a Cochrane Systematic Review released on October 6th, yesterday vitamin D supplements when given to healthy children with normal vitamin D levels does not improve bone density at the hip, lumbar spine, forearm or in the body as a whole.

6 Oct 2010

Wound Care Innovations adds first pharmacy client to growing list of customers

Wound Management Technologies, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Wound Care Innovations, LLC has added the company's first pharmacy client to its rapidly growing list of customers. Lewis Hall, Inc. of Fort Worth, TX is an independent pharmacy group that has several locations and 30 years experience in wound care, long term care and specialty compounded products for dermatologic use.

6 Oct 2010

Pioneer Surgical receives patent for nanOss technology

Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc., a global medical device provider in orthopaedics, spine, and biologics, is proud to announce the United States Patent Office has reissued a patent further strengthening Pioneer's market position in nanocrystalline derived products used in orthopaedics.

6 Oct 2010

Orthovita's Cortoss Bone Augmentation study results to be presented at NASS Annual Meeting

Orthovita, Inc.an orthobiologics and biosurgery company, is pleased to announce that Hyun W. Bae, M.D., of The Spine Institute at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, will present an abstract entitled, Correlation of Early Pain and Long-Term Functional Results from a Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled FDA-IDE Vertebroplasty Trial,at the 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society (NASS) being held October 5-9, 2010 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

6 Oct 2010

Androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer associated with structural bone decay

Using novel technology allowing "virtual bone biopsies" researchers have found that a common treatment for prostate cancer called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is associated with structural decay of cortical and trabecular bone. The study has been accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

6 Oct 2010

FDA clears Integra LifeSciences' Vu aPOD Prime anterior lumbar interbody fusion device

Integra LifeSciences announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Vu aPOD™ Prime anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) device.

6 Oct 2010

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation hosts conference to discuss advancements in therapeutic medicine

The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation is hosting the 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound in Chantilly, Virginia from October 17-20. Leading researchers and clinicians from around the world will gather at the three-day scientific conference to present and discuss the latest advancements in one of the most revolutionary and promising areas of therapeutic medicine.

6 Oct 2010

Bone News and Research

Pioneer launches Bigfoot ALIF implant for lumbar procedures

Center for Injury Research and Policy awarded $38.6M to expand METRC

Integra Total Wrist Fusion System to be featured at ASSH Annual Meeting

Role of TGF-ß in cancer diseases

Soy germ-based nutritional supplement helps to manage menopausal symptoms

Paper describes new method for studying bacterial infection of orthopedic implants

Vitamin D deficiency may impact orthopaedic procedure outcomes

American Cancer Society awards 94 national research, training grants to 70 institutions nationwide

'The Pittsburgh Protocol' enables reduction of multiple anti-rejection drugs after transplantation

Vitamin D supplementation in healthy kids pointless: Study

Wound Care Innovations adds first pharmacy client to growing list of customers

Pioneer Surgical receives patent for nanOss technology

Orthovita's Cortoss Bone Augmentation study results to be presented at NASS Annual Meeting

Androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer associated with structural bone decay

FDA clears Integra LifeSciences' Vu aPOD Prime anterior lumbar interbody fusion device

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation hosts conference to discuss advancements in therapeutic medicine

Amgen to present oncology portfolio results at ESMO Congress

Foot surgeons urge patients not to ignore foot pain

Medtronic launches new KYPHON Express Curette for scraping or scoring bone in the spine

New approach method could simplify study and treatment of human diseases

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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