Mercyhealth opened its Orthopedic Center of Excellence in Rockford, Mich., according to Rockford Register Star.
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Ken Smith, MD, was awarded the 2016 Hope Award by the Johnson City, Tenn.-based nonprofit Spine Health Foundation. The Hope Award recognizes physicians who support the Spine Health Foundation's mission to help disadvantaged individuals in need gain access to spinal…
John Woodward Jr., MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Physicians of Colorado, a practice with locations in Englewood, Highlands Ranch and Littleton. He is a general orthopedic surgeon, with special interests in trauma, sports injuries and joint replacement.
Satyajit Marawar, MD, has been named the orthopedics chief at Syracuse VA Medical Center, according to Syracuse.com. Syracuse VA Medical Center is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in New York.
VEXIM, a France-based company developing medical devices for the minimally invasive treatment of vertebral fractures, received regulatory approval to commercialize its SpineJack implant and Masterflow system in Australia.
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Patient-specific instrumentation is associated with more accurate and less time-consuming total knee arthroplasty surgeries, according to a study published in Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy.
Arriving to appointments with a plethora of online research, Americans are embracing the self-diagnosis trend, according to Quartz. Google noted about 1 percent of the site's searches include medical symptoms.
Patients who undergo outpatient anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction show no more postoperative discomfort than those who undergo the traditional inpatient procedure, according to a study published in Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research.
Physicians may possess "attribution biases," viewing obese patients as lazier, dumber and more worthless than thin patients, based on studies cited in a Stat article, according to Medscape.
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons recently submitted a 23-page report to CMS, urging the federal agency to reconsider its proposed global surgery reporting requirements. This proposal is included in the 2017 Medicare Physician…