Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During last week’s 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society (NASS), DePuy Spine, Inc. announced ...

Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have demonstrated that cement can be injected into the spine without prior, potentially dangerous dye studies. Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have ...

New technologies used to repair spinal fractures could soon be helping patients suffering from the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. The study will analyse whether techniques such as injecting ...

July 30 (UPI) --Adding magnetic particles to surgical cement better helps heal spinal fractures by guiding nanoparticles directly to lesions, according to research involving pigs. The method, ...

Stryker Interventional Spine today announced the U.S. launch of VertaPlex ® HV. VertaPlex HV is a high viscosity bone cement for use in treating vertebral compression fractures. Vertebral compression ...

Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumors or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled with surgical cement. While kyphoplasty can stabilize the ...

A procedure that fills in fractured vertebrae with injected cement has not been shown to improve a person's back pain or quality of life, according to a new analysis of studies. The procedure, known ...

SEATTLE (AP) - The physician who used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during a woman's spinal surgery and the company that ran an illegal test market to promote the dangerous product should be held ...

Reba Golden hurt her back after falling two floors while building an addition to her house in Honduras. But when she returned to Seattle for a routine spinal surgery, she suffered blood clots, severe ...

Johns Hopkins interventional radiologists have demonstrated that cement can be injected into the spine without prior, potentially dangerous dye studies. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV), injecting ...