Missouri's largest medical school, Kansas City University, is shifting its orthopedic residency program to Research Medical Center, one of HCA Midwest Health's family of hospitals in the region.

Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., is bolstering spine and orthopedic services through a partnership with Mid-America Orthopedics, local news outlet KCTV5 reported Aug. 18.

Neurosurgeon Todd Lanman, MD, became the first in the U.S. to restore motion at three contiguous levels in a patient's cervical spine.

More than 3.9 million patients are expected to be treated for degenerative disc disease in the U.S. by 2028, according to a report from Coherent Market Insights.

Robert Rothrock, MD, joined Baptist Health’s Miami Neuroscience Institute as neurosurgical director of spinal oncology, South Florida Hospital News reported Aug. 18.

The site of a historic San Francisco theater is slated to house an orthopedic practice.

The development of COVID-19 variants and how communities are responding to them are among the biggest concerns on the minds of orthopedic surgeons.

Orthopedic surgeons reported a steep drop in work relative value units, but the compensation per unit increased, according to AMGA's 2021 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity survey.

Geoffrey Martha became CEO of Medtronic during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. Mr. Martha joined the company in 2011 and has grown the company since.

Here are seven updates from spine and orthopedic device companies in the last week.

A physician who operated on himself and nine more orthopedic surgeons to know:

Two surgeons are seeing patients at a new orthopedic clinic at Hendrick Medical Center Brownwood (Texas), according to Brownwoodnews.com.

CMS' payment and site-of-care proposed changes for 2022 have caused some head-scratching among surgeons as the agency plans to walk back many of the changes it enacted this year.

The co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America are being sued, accused of marketing stem cell therapy to seniors by falsely claiming that it is an effective treatment for orthopedic conditions such as arthritis and joint pain.

Kristaps Keggi, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and researcher at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., was inducted into the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame.

Staples, Minn.-based Lakewood Health System has partnered with Golden Valley, Minn.-based Twin Cities Orthopedics.

Zimmer Biomet's Rosa Hip System has been approved for robot-assisted direct anterior total hip replacements, according to an Aug. 18 news release.

Timothy Scannell, president and COO of Stryker, will retire in 2023, according to an Aug. 18 news release.

An orthopedic surgeon affiliated with Delray (Fla.) Medical Center performed his first robotic-assisted total knee replacement.

Tri-County Orthopedics has opened a location in Bridgewater, N.J., the practice said in an Aug. 17 news release.