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Found 64 result(s) FROM 1963 pages containing the term 'implant'.
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Does PRP Therapy Actually Speed Healing?
The controversial blood treatment is gaining popularity amongst athletes, but studies showed mixed results on how effective it is...
Wednesday Apr 07, 2010
Surgeons Turn to Complex Spinal Procedures Despite Hazards
Complex surgical procedures to treat back pain have soared in popularity in recent years, but experts say they pose greater risks with no more benefits...
Monday Oct 19, 2009
Experts Call for Early Intervention with Hip Scopes
As presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy, earlier intervention is better when it comes to joint-sparing hip operations...
Wednesday Aug 12, 2009
So You Think You Can Dance After Hip Replacement? You Can!
Orthopaedic surgeons are realizing that patients are never too young or too old to undergo total hip arthroplasty...
Tuesday May 19, 2009
Improved Hip Implants Can Last 20 Years
Cement-less components for total hip replacements can last twice as long as previous versions, allowing younger patients to qualify as candidates for hip replacements...
Friday May 15, 2009
FDA Going Back for Second Look At Menaflex
The US FDA, responding to criticism about the Menaflex approval process, is planning to take another look...
Thursday Apr 30, 2009
Minimally Invasive Knee Replacement? Sometimes.
Minimally invasive knee arthroplasty may be appropriate for select patients when performed by an experienced surgeon...
Friday Mar 20, 2009
"Inner Space" Debris Triggers Joint Implant Failure
Immune reactions to metal debris from joint replacements triggers immune-mediated joint failure...
Wednesday Feb 11, 2009
Cementless Hip Replacements: Still Sturdy After 20 Years
Hip replacements done with cementless metal cups can last up to 20 years after revision arthroplasty and even longer when used for primary hip arthroplasty...
Friday Dec 12, 2008
Cartilage Repair Moving from Bench to Bedside
Mosiacplasty may soon be the method of choice for orthopaedic surgeons treating small focal defects in cartilage, but stem cell-based cartilage repair is also moving stealthily down the pike...
Monday Dec 08, 2008
Medtronic Challenges Lawsuit Over Spinal Implant
The family of a woman who died after having neck surgery with Infuse Bone Graft is suing Medtronic, the maker of the spinal implant, for promoting off-label use of their device...
Monday Oct 13, 2008
Unclear How Much Pounding New Hips, Knees Can Take
1 in 75 knee or hip replacement patients must have their artificial joint replaced within 3 years of their first surgery...
Thursday Sep 18, 2008
Consumer Ads for Medical Devices Subject of Senate Panel
A Senate committee is holding a hearing on consumer-directed promotions of medical devices such as artificial knees and heart stents after reports have claimed such promotions can mislead patients and influence them to have unnecessary surgeries…
Thursday Sep 11, 2008
Total Ankle Replacements are Coming Into their Own—Finally
Total ankle replacements are expected to soon rival hip and knee replacements in design, function, and durability. Airbags and seatbelts contribute to growing demand…
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
Mesoblast Reports Preclinical Study Shows Allogeneic Stem Cells in Ewes are Safe, Effective for Cervical Spine Fusion; Therapy May Receive Boost From US FDA’s Recent Alert of Life-Threatening Complications Associated With rhBMP in Cervical Spine Fusions
Mesoblast is currently in phase II clinical trials for fusion of the lumbar spine and, based on these new results, will extend its market opportunity to cover the entire spectrum of spinal fusion. Subject to FDA approval, Mesoblast's therapy will eliminate the need for autograft...
Thursday Aug 21, 2008
Mesoblast Reports Stem Cells Regrow Knee Cartilage in Postmenopausal Ewes With OA; Repair Nonhealing Bones in Humans
Mesoblast, a regenerative medicine company developing treatments for orthopaedic conditions, announced successful preclinical trial results showing that its proprietary adult stem cells regenerated and regrew damaged knee cartilage...
Thursday Aug 07, 2008
Heart Risks Rise With Revision or Bilateral Joint Arthroplasty
Patients who undergo revision or bilateral joint arthroplasty are at significantly higher increased risk for heart attack or heart failure than patients who undergo their first replacement of a single knee or hip…
Tuesday Jul 29, 2008
Complaints Undermine Hip Device
Sales of the Durom cup, an artificial hip socket, have been suspended following complaints by doctors of a high failure rate…
Tuesday May 27, 2008
Obese Patients at Greater Infection Risk After Hip Replacement
Patients with a BMI of 35 or higher are over 10 times more likely to suffer complications following revision hip replacement surgery...
Thursday Apr 17, 2008
Skyrocketing Rates of Hip and Knee Replacements May Tax Healthcare System
The US healthcare system should brace itself for an exponential increase in the number of primary and revision joint arthroplasties and their associated costs…
Wednesday Apr 16, 2008
Lilly’s Forsteo® Receives Approval From European Commission for the Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
Eli Lilly and Co announced that the European Commission has approved a new indication for Forsteo® (teriparatide [rDNA origin] injection) for the treatment of sustained, systemic glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) in adults at increased risk for fracture...
Tuesday Mar 18, 2008
Genzyme Reports That US Data From Large Outcome Studies of Carticel® Support Long-Term Clinical Duration; Prior Marrow Stimulation Techniques May Compromise Treatment With Carticel
Genzyme announced that almost 90% of patients treated with Carticel who experienced improvement in knee function at an early follow-up, sustained their improvement for almost 10 years...
Friday Mar 14, 2008
Gender Bias Seen in Total Knee Arthroplasty
Doctors are more likely to recommend total knee arthroplasty to male patients than to female patients...
Monday Mar 10, 2008
AAOS Panel Presents Hip Resurfacing as Option for Some Younger Patients
Hip resurfacing may emerge as a preferred option for some younger arthritis patients...
Monday Mar 10, 2008
AAOS Debates Gender-Specific Joint Implants
Joint replacement experts say implant should fit body, not gender...
Thursday Feb 28, 2008
Adult Stem Cells Nearing Clinical Use for RA, SLE, Other Autoimmune Diseases
Adult stem cells offer a safer, less controversial approach than embryonic stem cells to treat various rheumatoid and autoimmune diseases, and are now entering randomized clinical trials...
Tuesday Feb 19, 2008
Sensitivity to Implant Materials in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasties
Total knee arthroplasty patients may experience increased sensitization, which can negatively impact the outcome of the implant...
Thursday Jan 31, 2008
Financial Ties Are Cited as Issue in Spine Study
Many of the spine surgeons who hailed the Prodisc® as a medical breakthrough had a financial interest in the new product…
Friday Jan 11, 2008
Outcomes of Osteochondral Lesions of the Knee Repaired With a Bioabsorbable Device
Researchers evaluated the functional and radiographic outcomes of osteochondral lesions of arthroscopically-repaired knees...
Tuesday Jan 08, 2008
Pain Relief for Some, With an Odd Tradeoff
A new device implanted near the spine offers relief for some chronic pain sufferers...
Thursday Dec 20, 2007
OARSI Researchers Further Refine Matrix-Associated Cartilage Repair Techniques
Matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte implantation continues to improve as a way of repairing arthritis knees, and MRI can be used to check the quality of the repaired tissue...
Friday Sep 07, 2007
Archus Orthopedics Completes World's First Lumbosacral Facet Joint Replacement
Archus Orthopedics, Inc, a privately-held company developing reconstructive implants to treat a variety of spine disorders resulting from degenerative changes in the facet joints, announced that it has successfully completed in Europe the first human implants of its new TFAS-LSâ„¢ system, representing the first ever facet joint replacement procedures performed at the lumbosacral spinal (LS) level...
Thursday Aug 09, 2007
Calcitonin Study Heightens Interest in Antiresorptive Agents to Prevent OA Joint Damage
Calcitonin prevents the development of OA in an animal model and adds to evidence that antiresorptive agents can protect both cartilage and bone...
Thursday Jun 28, 2007
FDA Approves New Labeling for Carticel® in Repair of Articular Knee Cartilage
Genzyme Corporation announced that the US FDA has approved new labeling for Carticel® based on the company's completing a final FDA postapproval commitment study...
Thursday May 17, 2007
Airport Metal Detectors Find Most Hip, Knee Replacements
Airport metal detectors on "high security" sweeps detect most hip and knee implants. Patients who have implants should be provided with a physician's letter describing the implant and are advised to report the implant to airport security before approaching the scanner...
Tuesday May 08, 2007
2-Year Results Support Use of New Chondrocyte Graft to Repair Knee OA Damage
Two-year follow-up of a new 3-dimensional scaffold that permits grafting of autologous chondrocyte to repair knee cartilage defects show promising results in both knee OA and knee trauma, and the procedure can be done arthroscopically...
Thursday Apr 05, 2007
More Evidence Points Toward Safety of Anti-TNF Drugs During Pregnancy
Three recent case reports add to an accumulating body of evidence that the TNF-blockers are safe during pregnancy, but one new report is far from the final word on the issue...
Thursday Feb 22, 2007
Zimmer and ISTO Start Clinical Trial of Neocartilage (DeNovo® ET Engineered Tissue Graft), a Novel Cartilage Regeneration Treatment
Zimmer Holdings, Inc, an orthopaedic leader in reconstructive and spinal implants, trauma, and related orthopaedic surgical products, and ISTO Technologies, Inc, a clinical-stage orthobiologic company that focuses on cell-based technology for the repair and regeneration of damaged cartilage in joints and spinal discs, announced the initiation of a clinical trial for Neocartilage, a living tissue-engineered graft...
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
Experts at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Predict Clinically Useful Gene Therapy, Tissue Engineering Will Be Available "in 5 to 10 Years"
Presentations at the AAOS meeting include advances in both gene therapy and tissue-engineered products for cartilage, bone, and tendon repair...
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
Surgeons Warn Against Over-Use of "Minimally Invasive Surgery" for Hip Replacements
Surgeons at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 74th Annual Meeting questioned the advantages of minimally invasive hip replacement surgery compared with "gold standard" open THR... AAOS 2007 Annual Meeting.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2007
Wider Use of Spinal Cord Stimulation for Axial LBP Urged at Pain Medicine Meeting
Spinal cord stimulation is effective for axial low back pain (LBP) as well as for radiculopathy and should be more widely used for pain relief in LBP patients who have persistent pain associated with failed back surgery syndrome...
Thursday Nov 30, 2006
Low Risk of Jaw Osteonecrosis Seen With Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis
Osteonecrosis of the jaw has emerged as an unanticipated problem associated with bisphosphonate treatment in cancer patients, but is seldom a significant risk at the doses used for osteoporosis...
Thursday Nov 02, 2006
Disappointing Results in Study of Stem Cells for Cartilage Repair
Hopes that adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) might be used to create chondrocytes for patching cartilage had a setback when researchers found that culturing them in the usual chondrogenic medium did not produce tissues capable of becoming stable articular cartilage in vivo...
Friday Sep 29, 2006
US Docs Question RCT of Meniscus Repair Arrow, Norwegians Persevere
Rigid, bioabsorbable internal tacks have become popular for repairing meniscus tears, but problems identified with longer follow-up are leading many US orthopedists to shift to suture-based approaches. The arrow will be compared with a newer suture-based system in a Norwegian randomized clinical trial... Gifstad T, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2006;14 September 2006 [Epub ahead of print].
Wednesday Aug 30, 2006
Joint Distraction May Delay Need for Joint Replacement in Advanced Osteoarthritis
Temporarily stretching knees or ankles a bit to take the load off cartilage and subchondral bone promotes healing, reduces pain, improves function, and might help some osteoarthritis patients defer or even avoid total joint replacement...
Tuesday Aug 29, 2006
Histogenics Raises $13.1 Million to Advance Its Cartilage and Orthopedic Tissue Regeneration Technologies
Histogenics Corporation announced that it has raised $13.1 million in Series A-1 financing to be used to advance NeoCart®, its lead investigational product, into phase II clinical trials...
Thursday Jul 20, 2006
Bioengineered Cartilage Successfully Transplanted in Osteoarthritic Knees
Cells taken from areas of healthy cartilage can be grown on hyaluronic acid scaffolds and used to patch damaged knees, even joints that have already progressed to osteoarthritis....Hollander AP, et al. Tissue Engineering 2006;12:1-12.
Thursday May 25, 2006
Meniscus Allografts Survive, Provide "Shock Absorber" in Severe Arthritis
Meniscus retread might help delay need for total knee replacement... Stone KR, et al. Arthroscopy. 2006;22:469-478.
Wednesday May 24, 2006
Bone-Sparing, Metal-on-Metal Hip Resurfacing System Benefits Young, Active Patients
A just-approved bone-sparing hip-resurfacing system will likely relieve pain and improve hip function among younger, active patients who have good bone quality, but caveats remain...
Thursday Mar 23, 2006
Biomarkers May Identify Early Implant Failure or Loosening
New research is helping to identify early biomarkers of prosthetic performance as well as genetic polymorphisms that predict risk of osteolysis... Presented at: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society; March 18–22, 2006; Chicago, Ill.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2006
Local Bisphosphonate Administration May Improve Implant Fixation
Local treatment with the bisphosphonate alendronate combined with bone compaction may improve implant fixation... Jakobsen T, et al. Presented at: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society; March 18–22, 2006; Chicago, Ill. Abstract 89.
Monday Mar 20, 2006
Use of Muscle-Derived Stem Cells May Revolutionize Treatment of OA
Due to their regenerative capabilities, muscle-derived stem cells may one day revolutionize the treatment of osteoarthritis, potentially staving off the need for joint replacement surgery in millions... Huard J, et al. Presented at: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society; March 18–22, 2006; Chicago, Ill. Workshop 1.
Monday Feb 06, 2006
Archus Orthopedics Raises $35 Million in Series C Financing
Archus Orthopedics, Inc, of Redmond, Washington, announced that it has closed a $35 million round of Series C financing...
Wednesday Nov 16, 2005
Zimmer Holdings Poised to Expand R&D Center
Zimmer Holdings, Inc, of Warsaw, Indiana, an industry leader in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of reconstructive and spinal implants and related orthopaedic surgical products, has announced plans to expand its research and development capabilities and facilities in Warsaw
Monday Oct 03, 2005
Cytori Therapeutics Reports Differentiation of Adipose-Derived Adult Stem Cells to Spinal Disc
Cytori Therapeutics, Inc, along with its collaborators, released data demonstrating that human adipose-derived adult stem cells have the potential to differentiate into cells with the phenotypic traits and DNA expression markers of mature nucleus pulposus cells...
Tuesday Sep 13, 2005
ISTO Completes $10.8 Million Package to Finance Cartilage-Regeneration Therapies
ISTO Technologies, Inc, a St. Louis–based orthobiologics company, has completed a $10.8 million financing package led by Zimmer Holdings Inc...
Friday Jun 10, 2005
Angiotech Out-licenses Biomaterial for Cartilage and Orthopaedic Tissue Regeneration
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the incorporation of pharmaceutical compounds into implantable medical devices and biomaterials, announced that it has licensed its ChondroGelTM biomaterial to Histogenics Corporation for use with its NeoCartTM cartilage implant in cartilage and orthopedic tissue regeneration applications.
Tuesday Jun 07, 2005
CryoLife Pathogen Protectant for Cryopreserved Tissues
CryoLife, Inc, a biomaterials and biosurgical company based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced the first human implant of cryopreserved orthopaedic tissues utilizing the Clearant ProcessR, a gamma-irradiated radioprotectant designed to inactivate pathogens while maintaining tissue integrity.
Monday Apr 25, 2005
Novel Osteoinductive Molecule May Speed Fracture Healing and Enhance Spinal Fusion
A newly discovered osteoinductive protein promises greater specificity than bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs)...UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science [press release]. April 21, 2005.
Monday Mar 14, 2005
Novel Estrogenic Agonist May Suppress Inflammation
Preclinical and Phase I data suggest that an estrogen receptor beta-agonist, ERB-041, may have potent anti-inflammatory properties without classic estrogenic effects...American College of Rheumatology 2005 Innovative Therapies in Autoimmune Disease Meeting, Washington, DC, March 4-6, 2005.
Saturday Mar 12, 2005
Genzyme Acquires a Second-Generation Cartilage Repair Product; Buys Back Rights to SynviscR
Genzyme Corp has acquired Verigen AG, a private German company that has developed a proprietary cell-therapy product for cartilage repair.
Monday Feb 28, 2005
New Minimally Invasive Knee Arthroplasty Techniques Present Promise, Challenges
Direct-to-consumer marketing has spurred patient demand for minimally invasive joint replacements, but widespread application of these procedures is limited by a lack of experienced surgeons and of data supporting their use... The 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; February 23-27, 2005; Washington, DC.
Friday Feb 25, 2005
The Future of Spinal Surgery: Artificial Discs and Bone Growth Factors Show Promise
PCM cervical discs, Charité lumbar discs, and BMPs demonstrate improved outcomes and greater patient satisfaction as alternatives to traditional spinal fusion surgery...72nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons; February 23, 2005.
Tuesday Aug 03, 2004
ReGen Biologics Begins Modular FDA Pre-Market Approval Submission for CMI Product
The Collagen Meniscus Implant (CMI) is the first application of ReGen's proprietary tissue growth technology.
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