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Successfully performed in more than 40,000 patients worldwide, spine arthroplasty can reduce pain and disability while preserving motion. In contrast to traditional fusion techniques, artificial disc and nucleus replacements allow the spine to continue to move and may protect against adjacent disc degeneration. For carefully selected patients, it can transform their lives. International leader in spinal surgery, Dr Jack Zigler, Medical Director at the Texas Back Institute, discusses the latest medical innovations in spine arthroplasty and the findings at the ISSAS in March.

Patrick Driscoll, founder of MedMarket Diligence, a company that provides tactical information and insights into the medical technology industry, has offered up some advice for innovators who are looking for research funding in order to bring their ideas to market in these challenging financial times.

The European healthcare sector is a rich source of medical device innovation but taking a product to market is fraught with hurdles. Working with an incubator that specialises in entrepreneurial investments is a viable alternative to partnering with a major company and can both ease and accelerate that process…

Personalised medicine – tailoring treatments to a patient’s genes, environment and other characteristics – has come to the fore in recent years. But what does its growth mean to those working in medical devices? And how does it intersect with another burgeoning area, nanotechnology? We meet a nanotechnology business developer to find out.

You may think that coming up with a killer idea is the hardest part of the innovation process, but there are many other potential barriers to turning your inventive idea into a market-ready product. We meet doctor-turned-innovator Will Nicolson and policy expert Herb Riband to hear about the issues that they think can limit innovation in Europe, and what you can do to beat them.

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