Author: Alan Condon

As spine procedures continue to accelerate to the outpatient setting, surgeons will need access to technologies that enable higher-acuity procedures to be done with accuracy and predictability in the least traumatic manner.

Eight more operating rooms are being added to Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., including two ORs that will be used specifically for spine and total joint surgeries, Mycentraljersey.com reported Aug. 19.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Aug. 18 refused to revive claims in a NuVasive spine surgery patent case, siding with a previous decision made by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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.

The Inhance shoulder arthroplasty system was introduced Aug. 18 by DePuy Synthes, the orthopedics company of Johnson & Johnson.

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.