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Walter Carlson, MD, is a spine surgeon with the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Orthopedic Institute.

Since opening its doors in the late 1940s, Waterloo, Iowa-based Cedar Valley Medical Specialists has stayed successful throughout the years in the hands of many generations of orthopedic surgeons, according to The Courier.

The future of digital radiography imaging is adaptability. Gone are the days of the limited floor mounted X-ray machine and in its place sits a fully modular, upgradeable system that has the adaptability that is more similar to a smartphone…

The FDA cleared San Diego-based Kyocera Medical Corp.'s Initia Total Hip System.

Santa Catarina, Brazil-based Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia de Jaraguá do Su surgeons have used Microsoft's HoloLens during spinal fusions.

Carlsbad, Calif.-based Aurora Spine created a mobile app.

President-elect Donald Trump called on Ben Carson, MD, to join his cabinet, despite the retired neurosurgeon's initial hesitation, according to Los Angeles Times. 

According to the "Medscape Ethics Report 2016: Money, Romance, and Patients" a percentage of most physicians report they would "cherry-pick" or "lemon-drop" patients to avoid those with a comorbid disease or patients that are unlikely to follow a treatment regimen.

Denver Health disciplined an anesthesiologist over a Facebook post, according to The Denver Post.

A new study published in Spine examines multilevel posterior cervical decompression and fusion, posing the question of whether it's necessary to extend the multilevel procedures to the upper thoracic spine.