Simplify Medical said it was recently acquired by Australian private equity shop M.H. Carnegie for an undisclosed amount, as it gears up for a U.S. clinical trial of its MRI-safe artifical cervical disc.
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Study: No benefit for cervical disc replacement
InVivo Therapeutics reports narrowed 2014 losses
(OTC:IVOB) reported a narrowed annual loss, due in part to changes in the market value of the company’s derivative warrant liability.
Appeals court overturns lost profits award in Medtronic’s spat with NuVasive
Globus Medical to pay $53m for key supplier Branch Medical
FDA panel green lights VertiFlex spinal stenosis device
A FDA advisory panel has recommended the agency approve VertiFlex Inc.’s Superion interspinous spacer system for the treatment of spinal stenosis.
According to VertiFlex, the panel based their vote largely on results from the company's 470-patient clinical trial.
FDA expands indication for Medtronic’s Vertex spine implant
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that it won an expanded indication from the FDA for its Vertex spinal fixation system, covering lateral mass and pedicle screw use in the posterior cervical spine.
Medtronic said the expanded indication makes it 1 of the 1st systems cleared in the U.S. for use of screws at vertebrae C1 to C7.