Author: Sophie Eydis

Bradley Weprin, MD, has been named president of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons for the 2026-2027 term. Dr. Weprin is director of the division of pediatric neurosurgery at Dallas-based Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also serves…

A stem cell therapy designed to repair damaged nerve pathways is moving closer to clinical testing for people with chronic spinal cord injury, according to a July 13 Inside Precision Medicine report on research presented at the International Society for…

Thomasville, Ga.-based Summit Spine & Joint Centers has acquired Southeast Neurology & Pain Management, an interventional pain management practice with clinics in Thomasville, Tallahassee, Fla., and Panama City, Fla. The acquisition is Summit’s third practice acquisition in the past three…

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center has become the first hospital in Illinois to install the Medtronic Stealth AXiS surgical system, an AI-powered navigation platform for brain and spine surgery. The technology combines AI-assisted surgical planning, real-time navigation…

Before Ziya Gokaslan, MD, enters the operating room, he increasingly wants the operation to have happened once already.  Not on the patient, but on a digital model of the patient’s spine. Using medical imaging, surgeons can create a “digital twin,”…

Lauren Matteini, MD, now approaches many cervical spine cases by trying to disqualify the operation she would prefer to perform. The operation is cervical disc replacement. “In my practice now, I’m trying to find a reason not to do it,”…

Much of the durable medical equipment routinely prescribed after cervical spine surgery is not well supported by clinical data, according to an analysis published in the Summer 2026 issue of Vertebral Columns by spine surgeon Arash Sayari, MD, and medical…

For a generation, the hardest question in spine surgery was whether a case could be done at all, and then whether it could be done outside a hospital. Surgeons answered it. Fusions and decompressions once confined to inpatient suites now…

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach has added Vanessa Gabrovsky Cuéllar, MD, as a physician partner, expanding the ASC’s orthopedic services. Dr. Cuéllar specializes in hand, wrist and upper extremity disorders, with a focus on complex…

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine physicians said GLP-1 weight loss medications are helping more patients qualify for knee replacement surgery while reducing the risk of complications, according to a July 2 news release. Here are five things to…