By EFORT Head Office | The December 2018 issue of EFORT’s online newspaper Orthopaedics Today Europe (OTE) is now available! Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available in a new digital format, all HTML, mobile-optimized format, with new monthly publications for our global readership. Each issue provides high level editorial features and clinical news content as […]
EFORT: Are Orthopaedic and Trauma implants safe?
November 30, 2018 By
In the third week of November a large collective of journalists published articles about the safety of surgical implants in Europe. In both newspapers and on television they criticized the safety of some of the implants. They also criticized the process in Europe for evaluation of implants before they are allowed onto the market. The […]
EFORT Orthopaedics Today Europe: Volume 21 | Issue no. 11 | November 2018
November 7, 2018 By
By EFORT Head Office | The November 2018 issue of EFORT’s online newspaper Orthopaedics Today Europe (OTE) is now available! Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available in a new digital format, all HTML, mobile-optimized format, with new monthly publications for our global readership. Each issue provides high level editorial features and clinical news content as […]
EFORT Orthopaedics Today Europe: Volume 21 | Issue no. 10 | October 2018
October 9, 2018 By
By EFORT Head Office | The October 2018 issue of EFORT’s online newspaper Orthopaedics Today Europe (OTE) is now available! Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available in a new digital format, all HTML, mobile-optimized format, with new monthly publications for our global readership. Each issue provides high level editorial features and clinical news content as […]
European Doctors unite to demand policymakers support for EU-Level HTA
September 28, 2018 By
While the European Parliament (EP) prepares to vote upon the legislative proposal on health technology assessment (HTA)*, organisations representing tens of thousands of healthcare professionals who make daily use of health technologies unite in a call for a positive legislative outcome. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) together with the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), […]
EFORT Orthopaedics Today Europe: Volume 21 | Issue no. 09 | September 2018
September 10, 2018 By
By EFORT Head Office | The September 2018 issue of EFORT’s online newspaper Orthopaedics Today Europe (OTE) is now available! Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available in a new digital format, all HTML, mobile-optimized format, with new monthly publications for our global readership. Each issue provides high level editorial features and clinical news content as […]
New Medical Devices Regulations (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulations (IVDR)
August 28, 2018 By
EFORT calls upon the European Commission and European Parliament to ensure that implementation of the new Medical Devices Regulations (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulations (IVDR) does not jeopardise the availability of high quality medical devices, which enable the safe treatment of patients and avoid compromised outcomes. EFORT is the European Federation of […]
Cobalt in Orthopaedic Implants
August 14, 2018 By
Joint Statement of EFORT and MedTech Europe’s Orthopaedic Sector Group 14 August 2018 Under the new Medical Devices Regulation, orthopaedic implants containing Cobalt (usually in alloy form) will most likely have to bear a label communicating the presence of Cobalt in the device. This may happen if the European Commission will adopt the proposal to […]
EFORT Orthopaedics Today Europe: Volume 21 | Issue no. 08 | August 2018
August 7, 2018 By
By EFORT Head Office | The August 2018 issue of EFORT’s online newspaper Orthopaedics Today Europe (OTE) is now available! Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available in a new digital format, all HTML, mobile-optimized format, with new monthly publications for our global readership. Each issue provides high level editorial features and clinical news content as […]
EFORT Orthopaedics Today Europe: Volume 21 | Issue no. 07 | July 2018
July 11, 2018 By
By EFORT Head Office | The July 2018 issue of EFORT’s online newspaper Orthopaedics Today Europe (OTE) is now available! Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available in a new digital format, all HTML, mobile-optimized format, with new monthly publications for our global readership. Each issue provides high level editorial features and clinical news content as […]
