Author: Alan Condon

Here are 10 key updates in spinal cord injury research this year.

Here are 12 spine and neurosurgeons making the news.

Brett Kindle, MD, and his medical staff successfully completed the 150th ultrasound-guided carpel tunnel release at Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, according to the group's Twitter account.

Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus installed Globus Medical's ExcelciusGPS robotic guidance and navigation system for spine surgery, reports Sussex Countian.

Jonathan Gottlieb, MD, of Miami, Fla.-based Minimally Invasive Spine Center of South Florida is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon specializing in the treatment of spinal stenosis, back pain and radiculopathy among other conditions.

Scott Sanderson, MD, is a neurosurgeon practicing out of Danbury (Conn.) Hospital and Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital, as part of Nuvance Health — formerly Western Connecticut Health Network — and Neurosurgical Associates of Southwestern Connecticut, both of Danbury, Conn. He is…

Chief Scientific Officer of Aptinyx Joseph Moskal, PhD, will retire from his role with the company, effective Aug. 1.

Researchers from New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City demonstrated that patients receiving Ibuprofen post-surgery with a rescue prescription of Percocet used less opioids than patients prescribed only Percocet, reports EurekAlert.

Centinel Spine launched rediscover, a new patient support and education initiative.

Kieran Cody, MD, will serve as the new president of the medical staff at Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown Township, Pa., for the next two years, reports The Intelligencer.