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After 13 years of playing professional football and enduring high levels of physical impact on his body, pro football Hall of Famer and Super Bowl champion Jerome Bettis is no stranger to joint pain. This past summer, “The Bus” teamed up with orthopedic surgeons from The Midwest Institute for Robotic Surgery at Silver Cross Hospital to talk with fans and joint pain suffers about the importance of mobility.

The doctors also demonstrated the new Mako™ System for total hip and partial knee replacement surgery. Silver Cross is the only facility in Will, Grundy and Kankakee counties offering Mako robotic-arm assisted procedures for adults living with early to mid-stage osteoarthritis.

Angels invest in local medical device startup (Naples News)

A Naples-based investment fund has bet its money on the success of a local orthopedic medical device startup.

The fund, Tamiami Angel Fund II, or T2 for short, has invested nearly $1 million in Catalyst OrthoScience to help the company ramp up the production of what it describes as a “breakthrough product” for shoulder-replacement surgery.

“The product we feel is revolutionary, not evolutionary. And we liked the progress that the management team had made,” said Tim Cartwright, chairman of Tamiami Angel Funds.

Steven Goldberg, chief of orthopedic surgery at Physicians Regional Healthcare System in Naples, founded Catalyst OrthoScience in December 2014.

Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/09/2016 -- Medical devices include a broad range of medical instruments used for patient monitoring, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases or abnormal physical conditions, including cardiac, orthopedic, respiratory, and ophthalmic diseases. They range from simple medical devices to complex programmable devices such as pacemakers and laser surgical devices. They are classified based on their characteristics, complexity, and potential harm.

The medical devices market in Japan to grow at a CAGR of 2.49% over the period 2014-2019. The medical devices market in Japan is the second largest market after the medical devices market in the US.

Approximately two-thirds of the world’s population lacks access to many common, safe surgeries. One software company, Proximie, is using telemedicine to to try to help fill that gap.

Proximie is an an application designed for mobile devices that allows a surgeon in one location to view the operative field and provide instruction in the operating room at a different location. The Proximie platform is based around the concept of having two mobile devices, one in each location, that has a camera for viewing and screen/microphone setup for communicating.

The remote “assisting” surgeon can guide the case with commentary or screen markings, using augmented reality, to direct the operating surgeon.

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Last Updated: 14 August 2016