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Updated: Minute Insight: FDA Clears Zimmer Biomet’s Identity Shoulder, ZB Calls It ‘Biggest Shoulder Launch In the Last Five Years’

 
• By Marion Webb

Zimmer Biomet said on 20 September that the FDA cleared its Identity shoulder system and expects it to be available to US surgeons in the fourth quarter.  

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• Source: Informa/Alamy

[Editor's Note: This article was updated on 20 September to include the expected launch of the Identity shoulder system to US surgeons in the fourth quarter, and provide more information on the system from Zimmer Biomet.]

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.’s Identity shoulder replacement implant received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration...

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