Medtronic “Repurposes” Spine Convention Booth To Tell Its Side of BMP Story
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The firm’s bare-bones booth at the North American Spine Society annual meeting was a conspicuous sign of strains between Medtronic and the clinical group over how issues surrounding its rhBMP-2 Infuse bone graft have been presented.
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