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ORTHOPEDICS
HSS to open its 1st
orthopedic clinic in Florida
in January
By Alan Condon
N
ew York City-based Hospital for Special
Surgery is opening its first Florida orthopedic
clinic in West Palm Beach in late January, The
Palm Beach Post reports.
The 60,000-square-foot facility will open with
between 30 to 50 staff, including radiologists and
physical therapists.
The clinic will feature five full-time and three part-
time physicians, and add more as services grow.
Outpatient procedures such as hip and knee
replacements as well as nonsurgical spine care will
be provided at the center.
HSS' Florida expansion comes after New York City-
based NYU Langone and Mount Sinai Hospital of
New York recently opened medical offices in West
Palm Beach. n
Startup creates 1st 3D-printed
porous implants to imitate
bone — 4 insights
By Eric Oliver
S
tartup device company FossiLabs is using a new
form of 3D printing to create fully porous PEEK
bone-like structures within implantable devices,
Medical Plastics News reports.
What you should know:
1. The startup believes these structures are the first of
their kind.
2. Older 3D-printed implants had surface porosity or
windows within defined layers. FossiLabs, however, is
able to 3D-print solid or defined porous structures from
within the 3D space.
3. The unique implants encourage bone growth, which
creates greater integration strength than preceding 3D-
printed implants.
4. The startup is attempting to license the technology to
medical device companies. n
