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Ali Oliashirazi, MD, and his wife have pledged to fund a new endowed scholarship at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in Huntington, W.Va., according to a Huntington News report.

The NFL Physicians Society has honored Daniel E. Cooper, MD, with the Arthur C. Rettig Award for Academic Excellence, according to a Star-Telegram report.

Daphne Scott, MD, joined Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, according to a Daily Voice report.

Medical device company heavyweights such as Medtronic, DePuy Synthes and Wright Medical are jostling with local companies to establish a foothold in the Asia-Pacific orthopedic biomaterials market, according to a report by iData Research.

The FDA has approved CoorsTek Medical's CeraSurf-p ceramic femoral heads used in orthopedic implant systems.

EOS imaging received the CE Mark for spineEOS, its online 3D planning software for spine surgery.

Primary care physicians in states that expanded Medicaid are seeing substantially more Medicaid patients than those in states that did not, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and athenahealth.

Medacta will highlight its newest surgical innovations at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting from March 1 to March 5 in Orlando, Fla.

Medical Compression Systems unveiled ActiveCare Online, the company's next-generation platform for improving the clinical outcomes following total hip or knee replacements, according to the EconoTimes.