Author: Alan Condon

Beaumont Health, Troy (Mich.) Hospital recently appointed spine surgeon Richard Easton, MD, chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery.

Spine device manufacturer Joimax received FDA approval Aug. 6 for Intracs, an electromagnetic navigation tracking and control system for spine surgery.

Greg Gullung, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Birmingham-based OrthoAlabama, discusses the biggest barrier for spine providers and how medical practices can help one another push through the COVID-19 crisis.

Richmond-based OrthoVirginia has moved its Alexandria, Va., office into a new building in the city and combined its McLean and Vienna offices into a larger facility in McLean, it said this week.

Police in Mobile, Ala., have charged neurosurgeon Jonathan Nakhla, MD, with manslaughter in connection with a single-car crash this month that killed a third-year medical student at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Fox 10 TV reports.

Kevin Harrington, entrepreneur and former panel member on ABC's Shark Tank, has invested in CYRx MD Skincare, a company founded by spine surgeon Steven Cyr, MD.

The University of Maryland Capital Region Health in Cheverly has appointed Brent Bauer, MD, director of orthopedic traumatology in June.

Eric Makhni, MD, serves as director of quality and informatics of Henry Ford Health System's orthopedic service line and clinical associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine, both in Detroit.

Three spine surgeons received honors in July. 

The FDA has cleared Genentech's Evrysdi drug for spinal muscular atrophy in adults and children 2 months of age and older, according to an Aug. 10 announcement.