Heraeus – Your Bone Cement Expert
Heraeus Medical is one of the leading companies in the field of bone cement, biomaterials and biosurgery for elective orthopaedic and trauma surgery. As a result, the company makes an essential contribution by improving the surgical outcome in bone and joint surgery leading to an improvement in the patients health-related quality of life. Furthermore, this may lead to a reduction in healthcare costs.
Heraeus Medical mainly focuses on biomaterials for orthopaedic surgery. The key product PALACOS®, is regarded as the Gold Standard amongst bone cements, with a history of clinical efficacy spanning five decades.
In the field of biosurgery, Heraeus develops and offers innovative antiinfective coatings for medical implants.
News & Congresses:
Name change: PALAMED® bone cement is now called PALACOS® MV
27.March, PALACADEMY® Symposium:
"Local antibiotics in arthroplasty - benefit or risk?"
VI International Course of Arthroplasties
8 - 11 April 2010, Barcelona