Lying in Enam's orthopedics ward for women is Pakhi Begum, who lost both legs.
The enormous army-run Pramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok is a leader in orthopedics, cardiology and pediatrics.
Its Endoscopy products consist of camera and scopes used for video assisted surgery, including Orthopedics and Urology.
And a manager at Boeing is quoted saying that the aerospace company is considering doing a similar deal for orthopedics care.
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Its Zimmer Orthopedics division was spun off to shareholders earlier this year.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people) has gotten rid of both its orthopedics and beauty products divisions.
Angioplasty, defibs and orthopedics are now mainstays of the device industry.
Also steeped in American pride, Hanger, Inc. (No. 5 on our best small companies list), a prosthetics and orthopedics provider, is growing here for different reasons.
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But medical devices have traditionally been scrutinized less by regulators, and medical device makers, particularly in orthopedics and surgery, pay outside researchers far more than drug companies.
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Improved longevity means enormous expansion in care and services for the aging, advances in orthopedics, and an explosion in devices to both treat and monitor chronic illness.
David Flum, a surgeon at the University of Washington who focuses on orthopedics, says there is a "tremendous double standard" in what the FDA requires of drugs versus devices.
The Center for Orthopedics Research and Development (CORD) works closely with Nemours Department of Orthopedics to develop devices and methods that directly impact children with musculoskeletal and orthopedic disabilities.
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Orthopedics isn't exactly slow growing: Companies like Warsaw, Ind.
Analysts had praised Stryker and Mr. MacMillan for steady performance even as the market for orthopedics stalled amid ongoing government scrutiny and a slack economy that's prompted patients to delay nonurgent procedures, such as hip replacements.
Ossur, an Icelandic orthopedics company, which supplies South African athlete Oscar Pistorius with his carbon fiber running blades -- called the Flex Foot Cheetah -- is one of the leading innovators in hi-tech lower-limb devices.
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