Author: Alan Condon

Here are nine spine devices launched in 2019.

Here are six hospitals expanding spine and neurosurgeon programs.

Dusty Smith, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Gadsden, Ala.-based Riverview Regional Medical Center invented a new medical device, Sagittae, for spinal fusions, reports The Gadsden Times.

Peter Derman, MD, is a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon at the Texas Back Institute in Plano.

NuVasive launched Modulus TLIF-O, a porous titanium spine implant to be used in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions.

In August 2018, U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2018-2019 survey ranked New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery as the No. 1 hospital in the country for orthopedics, for the ninth consecutive year.

A team of Harvard researchers used machine learning to predict which patients undergoing a procedure for lower back pain should be observed for opioid dependence, reports AI in Healthcare.

Former orthopedic spine surgeon and founder of Titan Spine, Peter Ullrich, MD, won an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 Midwest Award, reports Milwaukee Business News.

SpineGuard completed a training program for the PediGuard screw placement device line at its first training center in China.

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center of Hackensack Meridian Health is developing its campus into a 530,000-square-foot, $714 million facility.