All Ruthann Jacklin really wanted was to lift her 2-year-old daughter, Joanna, and give her a big hug. It was a simple enough wish, but one denied Jacklin because of the nagging, sometimes crippling ...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators will ask outside medical experts next week whether implanting an artificial spinal disc made by Medtronic is more effective than surgery at treating certain neck ...

A Newport Beach spine surgery center is taking part in a clinical study to determine an expansion in the use of cervical artificial discs. The Disc Surgery Center is now enrolling patients for the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's artificial spinal disc, launched in the United States with great fanfare three years ago, is in for design adjustments, the company said. Sign up here.

A Davis-Monthan airman is the first patient in Southern Arizona to undergo a new surgery — using artificial spinal discs — to relieve the kind of severe lower back pain suffered by millions of ...

Schererville resident Robert Gurevitz has good news for the more than 400,000 Americans expected to be helped by the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of the artificial spinal disc for ...

Artificial spinal disc producer SpinalMotion, just tacked $500,000 onto its $20 million third round of funding through a patent licensing agreement with an unnamed corporation. Based in Mountain View, ...

With more than 100,000 implantations worldwide, the M6-C and M6-L discs continue to demonstrate strong clinical performance, safety and patient benefits LEWISVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orthofix ...

A study recently published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery shows that two-year outcomes of artificial disc replacement for two-level disc disease is an effective alternative to fusion, ...

Here are 40 spine devices and technologies earning FDA clearances in 2025. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. 1. SurGenTec earned FDA 510(k) clearance for its OsteoFlo HydroFiber to be used as a ...

People with lower back pain who are mulling a total artificial disc replacement operation may have to wait awhile to get some choice in the marketplace. Currently, two artificial-disc products are ...