Author: Alan Condon

Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital, which debuted a $5 million orthopedic center in December, could soon be sold to Michigan.-based company Resilience Healthcare.

Thirty years from now, every operating room could have a robot for spine surgeries or joint replacements. Robotics has been the buzz word in spine surgery for years, but most surgeons agree the technology is incomplete. That said, what's next…

The University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville has opened a 195,000-square-foot campus that provides the breadth of orthopedic care under one roof.

Marion-based Central Indiana Orthopedics has suffered a data breach that may have exposed the protected health information of up to 83,705 individuals.

Jimmy Garoppolo underwent a "successful shoulder surgery" on March 8, NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported. 

From getting your practice off the ground to owning complications when they occur and learning from mistakes, six spine surgeons from private practices across the country shared the best advice they've received from another surgeon.

Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute is scaling up in Florida this year, with plans to recruit more physicians and add offices, according to the Orlando Business Journal.

Another lawsuit has been filed against Aetna Life Insurance, arguing that the insurer improperly limits coverage for lumbar artificial disc replacement by treating the procedures as experimental and investigational.

Frank Vizesi, PhD, has been appointed chief scientific officer of SeaSpine after seven years with the company.

Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, has completed 1,111 robotic-assisted spine surgeries and says enabling technologies such as robotics and augmented reality are "just beginning to scratch the surface" in spine surgery.