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Blue Cross and Blue Shield designated Midland-based MidMichigan Medical Center a Blue Distinction Center+ for spine surgery as well as knee and hip replacement surgery, according to Midland Daily News.

Difficult patients are less likely to receive accurate diagnoses, based on Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands research, according to Medscape. Difficult patients were defined as those demonstrating disruptive behaviors. BMJ Quality and Safety published the studies online on March…

Caesarea, Israel-based Mazor Robotics sold a Renaissance system to Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

The Medical Device Epidemiology Network Initiative appointed Jeff Dunkel, Titan Spine vice president of strategic partnering, to the Executive Operations Committee.

Farmingdale, N.Y.-based Misonix donated a BoneScalpel to Spine Overseas for mission work at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize.

According to Rappler, 483 out of 1,044 students passed the Physician Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medicine in the cities of Manila, Baguio and Cebu in March 2016.

Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., plans to open its new Longfellow Center for Joint Replacement on April 4.

Phase I of the dryland training area at the Eden Prairie Community Center, financed by a grant from Bloomington, Minn.-based Tria Orthopaedic Center, has been completed, according to an Eden Prairie News report.

BioMedical Enterprises launched the new BME Elite Nitinol Bone Fixation System.

North America's knee reconstruction market is predicted to grow in the next five years, according to a MicroMarket Monitor report.