Cement in Medical Technology

Metastatic Bone Disease Patients Can Walk in Lazarus' Footsteps

...e to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones -- provides immediate and substantial pain relief...perform osteoplasty. Osteoplasty involves the injection of semi-liquid bone cement (in this case, polymethyl-methacrylate or PMMA) into a bone lesion under co...

Breast Cancer Patients May Have a New Treatment Option When Cancer Spreads

...ooked at alternative -- injecting radioactive bone cement into the vertebral body -- with promising results....n the paper "Feasibility of Using Radioactive Bone cement to Treat Vertebral Metastases" during the 55th Ann...dure (vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty) in which bone cement is injected into the body to stabilize the bone ...

Building a New and Better Ankle

...the field and bring relief to patients. "When we started off, the ankles we used in this country included just two components and we had to use bone cement to fix them and basically they all failed," said Andrea Cracchiolo, MD, lead author of the article and Director of the Adult Foot and Ankle section at...

BioElectronics Announces Major Clinical Trials

...ed, Andy Whelan, CEO and President of BioElectronics Corporation. "The completion of a formal study by a surgeon of Dr. Genecov's caliber will further cement our position in this important and growing area. We are also very excited to be starting the trial for post- operative care for cesarean section. Acco...

First Human Implant of New Archus Orthopedics Facet Replacement System

...l pedicle screw fixation and join the company's first product, the Total Facet Arthroplasty System(R) or "TFAS(R)", which is anchored by means of bone cement and has been successfully implanted in nearly two hundred patients worldwide, with the vast majority treated in the United States in an ongoing IDE st...

MonoSol Rx Completes Thin Film Ondansetron Pilot Bioequivalence Study

... products to market that enhance the effectiveness and market-appeal of already-approved compounds. We believe this strategy will enable MonoSol Rx to cement its leadership position in the thin film drug delivery market." MonoSol Rx has signed a term sheet and is in final negotiations with a partner to ma...

Malvern initiates European user group meetings for chemical imaging

...terial properties (rheology) and chemical composition (chemical imaging). Malvern laboratory, on-line and in-line solutions are proven in sectors from cement to pharmaceuticals and support the understanding, improvement and optimization of many industrial processes. Headquartered in Malvern, UK, the compa...