EchoSure from Sonavex Inc. is designed to provide reliable, early detection of thrombosis, coupled with an excellent device safety profile, by detecting changes in blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.

EchoSure from Sonavex Inc. is designed to provide reliable, early detection of thrombosis, coupled with an excellent device safety profile, by detecting changes in blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.

Amidst low growth and a potential rebound in the $9 billion global spine market, the pure-play spine companies, including NuVasive, Globus, K2M and LDR, continue to outperform and grab share from the diversified giants. Medtech Insight founder and former CEO Sharon O'Reilly reports on these companies and more from the 2015 North American Spine Society (NASS) conference in Chicago, where the latest news centered around ancillary approaches to fusion, patient-specific tools, robotics, biologics, expandable cages, MIS and cervical discs.

The appointments of three device industry veterans to the Brookings-administered, and partially FDA-funded, Planning Board is intended to expand the range of input in the next phase of development of a new National Medical Device Surveillance System.