Clinical Trial of Artificial Cervical Disc is Approved

Simplify Medical Inc. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to start a clinical trial of its Simplify Disc, a non-metal, cervical artificial disc as a treatment for cervical disc disease. The FDA granted an Investigational Device Exemption for the two-level trial, which will compare the Simplify Disc to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion as a control, the company announced in a news release last week. The trial is a prospective study evaluating the Simplify Disc at up to 14 clinical sites in the U.S. and Australia. The Simplify Disc is a cervical artifici...