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MicroPort Orthopedics announced that Jimmy Chow, MD, has performed more than 1,000 total hip arthroplasty surgeries using the SuperPath Hip technique.

Today, most physicians would prescribe a placebo to a patient who doesn't need treatment but demands it as compared to 2010, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 2: Money, Romance and Patients.

The healthcare industry is in the midst of a major transformation; healthcare reform will exacerbate physician shortages and will create access issues for many patients.

The University of Missouri schools of medicine researchers received a $600,000 to benefit several projects, including one on engineered knee cartilage, according to a KOMU news report.

Two of the week's three worst medical device company stocks are from orthopedic companies — and the experts are advising to sell, according to an Investor Place report.

The global trauma fixation market is expected to grow over the next four years, according to a MicroMarket Monitor report.

Surgical site infections are serious complications and have a 6 percent to 24 percent prevalence rate among patients who undergo posterior spinal fusion for neuromuscular scoliosis, according to an article in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

A new study based on the Kaiser Permanente ACLR Registry examines risk factors associated with revision and contralateral anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions. The study results were published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Stephen Smith, MD, of Norfolk-based Northeast Nebraska Orthopedics, performed the first Vanguard XP Preserving Knee replacement procedure in the Siouxland region, according to a News 4 KTIV report.

Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics collected toys for 40 children and provided Christmas meals for 20 families in Clayton County, according to a Clayton News Daily report.