Becker’s Spine Review

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC School of Medicine has named Daniel Prevedello, MD, chair of its department of neurosurgery. He will begin the role in October. Dr. Prevedello joins UNC from The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, where he…

A microscope can make an operation more intricate. It does not necessarily make the hospital more necessary. Vanessa Gabrovsky Cuéllar, MD, an orthopedic hand and wrist surgeon and physician partner at DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach (Fla.), performs delicate…

The first surgical robots were enormous, expensive and impractical. They belonged to a period when computers still felt like specialized machinery: powerful, promising and largely inaccessible outside institutions with the money, staff and patience to operate them. Ugo Ihekweazu, MD,…

CMS has proposed cutting payment for some of the most common spine procedures performed in ASCs. Four spine surgeons discuss how the cuts, if finalized, would reshape their site-of-service decisions. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed…

Trellis Bioscience, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, closed a $9 million Series C financing round to support completion of its phase 2 trial of calpurbatug, an investigational monoclonal antibody therapy for chronic prosthetic joint infections. The financing included participation from existing…

A group of physician lawmakers has introduced the Patients First Act, which revamps the Medicare physician fee schedule, expands access to care and improves incentives for independent practices.  Here are eight notes on the new legislation, according to a July…