Author: Sophie Eydis

After 23 years at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City, Brian Wolf, MD, thought he understood how the orthopedic department worked. Then he sat in the chair’s office. The clinical work was familiar. So were the faculty, finances…

Patients across the U.S. have filed lawsuits in federal court against Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific, Medtronic and Nevro alleging spinal cord stimulator devices caused injuries including electric shocks, worsening pain, neurological injury and repeated corrective surgeries. The lawsuits, filed in…

The question used to be almost automatic. Do you take my insurance? Shobhit Minhas, MD, orthopedic hand surgeon and partner at Geneva, Ill.-based Fox Valley Orthopedics, is hearing a different one more often. What will this cost if I pay…

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco has opened an eight-bed Children’s Neuroscience Specialty Unit, expanding its inpatient capacity for children with neurologic and neurosurgical conditions. The unit is the hospital’s first inpatient expansion since it opened in 2015. It provides…

A child with a malformed hip does not become a different patient on their 18th birthday. Similarly, the disease does not recognize the border between pediatric and adult medicine. The healthcare system often does recognize that border, however. Children’s hospitals…

A patient sees a primary care physician for back pain, then a physical therapist, then a pain specialist, perhaps a chiropractor, perhaps another pain specialist. There may be injections, an ablation, new imaging and weeks between appointments. Eventually, the patient…

Legal pressure on orthopedic and spine providers came from multiple directions in the second quarter, spanning payer fraud suits, a kickback guilty plea and a device liability claim.  Here are five orthopedic lawsuits to know from second-quarter 2026:

Vector Science & Therapeutics, a medical technology and therapeutic delivery company, plans to build a dedicated distributor network to commercialize its peptide portfolio across the orthopedic, sports and regenerative medicine markets.  The network will target orthopedic and sports medicine practices,…

Surgical workflow and operations software company eXeX appointed Max Reinhardt president of healthcare. Mr. Reinhardt will lead commercial execution for the company’s surgery intelligence platform, Canopus, as eXeX expands deployments across hospital systems in the U.S., the U.K. and other…

The Synergy Disc, a cervical disc replacement device from Synergy Spine Solutions, has been used in 100 cervical disc replacement procedures in the U.S. following FDA approval earlier this year. The milestone came within 100 days of the first commercial…