Most modern broken bones are healed with the help of titanium screws and plates that sometimes must be removed afterward. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and ...

Titanium screws may soon be a thing of the past as researchers in Germany unveil medical screws that promote bone growth into the implant itself so as not to leave holes. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore ...

The screw utilizes the superelastic properties of Nitinol to allow higher levels of compression than contemporary bone screws. During manufacturing, the screw is stretched and held in an elongated ...

After four years of work developing a small device to help orthopedic screws better grip surgery patients’ bones, Manchester’s Woven Orthopedics has hit a major milestone.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silver Bullet Therapeutics, Inc., a privately-held medical device company, announced today that it has received recommendation for CE Mark approval for the ...

Biomechanics from TU Graz, are developing surgical screws from donated human bone material for foot and jaw surgery together with surgebright, a start-up from Linz, Austria. To heal broken bones using ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has announced a final order to classify the screw sleeve bone fixation device into class II with special ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ACL reconstruction is a widely accepted treatment for patients who have instability symptoms from ACL deficiency ...

Any backyard mechanic knows how difficult and frustrating it can be to remove a screw that is broken or stripped, but with medical hardware like bone screws the matter can be more serious. Now a ...

To heal broken bones using medical help, the surgical method of choice for decades have been metal screws, mainly made of titanium or stainless steel. During and after the healing process, these metal ...