Sophie Eydis

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health is studying genicular artery embolization, a minimally invasive procedure, as a potential treatment for people with knee osteoarthritis. U of U Health recently began treating patients with GAE and is enrolling participants in…

In the first hours after a severe spinal cord injury, Jonathan Yun, MD, is trying to control what can still be controlled: blood pressure, oxygenation, blood loss, the stability of the patient, and the location and extent of the injury.…

Gainesville-based University of Florida selected Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD, as the next director of the UF Health Cancer Institute, effective Sept. 21. Dr. Mitchell is the Phyllis Kottler Friedman Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and co-director of the Preston…

Osteoporosis has a timing problem. The disease can progress quietly for years, without pain or an obvious warning that sends someone to a physician. Then a patient falls, twists the wrong way or sustains a fracture that seems disproportionate to…

CMS’ shift toward greater financial risk is forcing spine surgeons to look beyond the operating room at the systems that could increasingly determine how they are paid. Three spine surgeons discussed why outcomes tracking, patient-reported data and practice infrastructure could…

Researchers at New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery identified stem cells that give rise to tendons and ligaments and found that their overactivity may contribute to lumbar spinal stenosis. The researchers identified the stem cells…

Alexander Vaccaro, MD, PhD, MBA, has been performing complex spine surgery for 33 years. Today, he can do some operations in nearly half the time they once took him. That is what decades of experience are supposed to produce: A…

Spine surgeons told Becker’s that insurers are increasingly asking for the exact graft and implant names planned for surgery before approving some spinal fusions, on top of level-by-level coding, imaging and proof of failed conservative treatment. Getting a fusion approved…

Kinomatic, an AI- and virtual reality-driven orthopedic surgery planning and aftercare company, launched Kinect, a platform connecting surgical planning, case management and surgeon collaboration for knee and hip joint replacements. The web-based platform brings case data, imaging, communications and surgeon…

Philadelphia-based Drexel University College of Medicine named Asif Ilyas, MD, academic chair of orthopedic surgery, according to a Sept. 2 LinkedIn post.  Dr. Ilyas had served as interim chair of the department since December 2025. He is also a professor…