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Procedure involving balloons and cement may treat back problems, doctors discover

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- A doctor in Austin thinks many back problems can be cured with balloons and cement. It's a new procedure to treat disc fractures called balloon kyphoplasty. Dr. Viet Tran says ...
Business Wire

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies Specifies the Procedures for its Combined General Meeting of June 26, 2020, Held in Closed Session

CHAILLÉ-SOUS-LES-ORMEAUX, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies (Paris:ALHGR) (ISIN: FR0013451044, Ticker: ALHGR) (“Hoffmann ...
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Study Shows RF Kyphoplasty Procedure with StabiliT® Vertebral Augmentation System Led to 91% Less Cement Leakage (0 symptomatic) Compared to Vertebroplasty in Osteoporotic ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DFine, Inc., developer of minimally invasive solutions for treating vertebral pathologies, announced today that Robert Pflugmacher, M.D., of University Hospital in ...
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This company has created a recipe for carbon-zero cement

Producing cement is a major source of carbon emissions — 8% of the global total. A company in Massachusetts has altered the recipe, finding a way to produce carbon-zero cement instead. Roughly 8% of ...