All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Orthopaedics

CMS has the objective of keeping their costs down, increasing quality, protecting the Stark laws against physician referrals, and guarding against beneficiaries being enticed to receive more services than necessary.  CMS threw all these objectives into the ACE demonstration project.  The problems...

The implant market is very competitive with surgeons being aggresive as early adopters to try to get a competitive edge and market themselves as using state of the art implants. This is pushed by the implant makers and often offer cooperative advertising....

Ceramic hips, advertized as longer lasting and therefore better, actually have a shorter life if revised for stripe wear and making noise. Some surgeons felt that they should offer this type of surgery because patients were demanding it.

Alphatec product line will expand and increase their market share The cervical plate from Progressive is much more promising than the Trestle plate developed by Alphatec, and should increase sales and improve the cervical implant portfolio

Outcomes in patients implanted with the artificial disc compare favorably with single level ACDF after 2 years.

the use of Vertex polyaxial screws is only a minor part of the spinal implant protfolio at Medtronic (MDT:NYSE).  This should not affect the bottom line to any significant extent.

Ever since Hyaluronans (HA) have been around to lubricate the the knee, arthroplasties have declined significantly for OA. This implies that finding the precise material necessary to keep the knee capsule full will prevent further degeneration of the joint and eventually the ultimate answer to treat...

Though Forteo did  increase the BMD greater than alendronate, It did not decrease the amount of no-veterbral fractures which lead to increased morbidity and mortality.

Stem cells plus HA provide a physiologically relevant combination that has real potential in tissue repair and regenerative medicine. But the press release goes further than warranted, in implying that Chondrogen addresses the OA market as a whole. The trial specifically evaluated the effects of the...

First of all, this is not a hypothesis generating study but a fishing expedition after an orthopedic procedure intervention. Maybe that's what happens when you let orthopedists loose with statistical analysis. Patients entered the study without any baseline osteoarthritis (OA) required...just a torn...