Recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the biopharma, medical device, and diagnostics industries.

Recent executive-level hires and director appointments at venture capital firms and biopharma and medtech start-ups.

Recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the medical device and diagnostics industries.

While products for fusing the spine remain the backbone of the booming market for spinal implants and instruments, there's a new focus on motion preservation. These technologies--for lumbar and cervical disc replacement, nucleus replacement, posterior stabilization,and pedicle screw-based systems--promise a host of new procedures to treat patients with symptomatic back pain who are earlier in the degenerative process.