Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health has begun construction on a $17.5 million orthopedic and neurosciences center in Canandaigua, N.Y. The center will occupy an existing 39,000-square-foot facility and consolidate several specialty practices currently operating at separate locations in the city, including…
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The Global Spine Initiative highlighted several organizational milestones during its first year, including participation in the FDA’s Total Product Life-Cycle Advisory Program Pilot and acceptance of a symposium at the 2025 North American Spine Society’s Annual Meeting Scientific Program in…
Amplio Spine has finalized its acquisition of the KeyLift expandable interlaminar stabilization system from FloSpine and launched national commercialization of the device. The transaction included KeyLift’s intellectual property portfolio, FDA 510(k) clearance, finished inventory and distributor relationships. Financial terms were…
In spine surgery, some of the most important decisions are made when something appears to be going wrong. A neuromonitoring signal suddenly disappears. An alarm sounds. A tracing drops. The surgeon has to decide whether a nerve is actually in…
Orthopedic surgeons spend years learning how to perform complex operations. Patients often remember something else. How long it took to get an appointment. Whether someone returned a phone call. How quickly an MRI was scheduled. Whether anybody seemed to know…
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When Craig Della Valle, MD, chief of adult reconstructive surgery at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center, calls his joint replacement patients the morning after surgery, the conversations are often surprisingly short. They’re home. They’re walking. And most are doing exactly…
The Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation named seven recipients of its 2026-27 Research Fellowship Grants and Young Clinician Investigator Award. The award supports neurosurgery residents and early-career faculty pursuing research careers. The fellowship grants are available to residents in North…
Atlanta-based Emory University School of Medicine named Guy McKhann II, MD, chair of its department of neurosurgery, effective Sept. 14. Dr. McKhann succeeds Daniel Barrow, MD, who will retire later this year after leading the department for more than 30…
When William Levine, MD, became chair of orthopedic surgery at New York City-based Columbia University in 2014, he thought he understood leadership. More than a decade later, he believes one of the biggest mistakes in medicine is assuming yesterday’s approach…
When Leonel Hunt, MD, began traveling to Africa through the Hunt Foundation, he expected to teach. He did not expect to rethink how he practiced medicine. Dr. Hunt had built a career at the forefront of spine surgery. An attending…