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Robert LaPrade, MD, PhD, of Vail, Colo.-based The Steadman Clinic, received the 2015 Alumni Career Award from The University of Maine Alumni Association in Orono.

A study led by Soren Skou of Aalborg (Denmark) University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark at Odense, compared surgical outcomes with nonsurgical treatments in patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to BusinessDay.

St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco offers spinal surgery guided by Mazor Robotics, according to abc 7.

Theodore Belanger, MD, of The Medical Center of Plano (Texas), plans to perform surgeries on a 20-year-old and 13-year-old with severe spinal disorders, according to WFAA 8.

Stanford (Calif.) Medicine started working on Green Button, a system that provides physicians with advice on how to treat patients with various "characteristics that have not been examined in clinical trials," according to The Stanford Daily.

Novant Health plans to break ground on its new $60 million orthopedic hospital in Charlotte, N.C., in early 2016, according to Charlotte Business Journal.

David M. Matusz, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon. He sees pediatric and adult patients in New York City and Scarsdale, N.Y.

Paradigm Spine commissioned a Miliman report titled, "Utilization and Cost for Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis in a Commercially Insured Population" that was recently published.

The Medicare administrative contractor Wisconsin Physician Services Insurance now covers minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion.

U.S. officials uncovered Chinese hackers breaching Anthem earlier this year to learn about the United States' healthcare system, according to The Daily Caller.