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AO North America named Robert A. McGuire Jr., MD, president-elect, according to a Mississippi Business Journal report.

Zimmer appointed Michael J. Farrell to its board of directors.

The use of composites in the global orthopedic industry is expected to grow at an average rate of 8.1 percent to reach $596 million by 2020, according to a market report published by ABMRG.

Nitin N. Bhatia, MD, is the director of the spine center and chief of the orthopedic spinal surgery service at University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the North American Spine Society, Cervical Spine Research Society and Scoliosis…

Here are updates from the past week on five orthopedic and spine device company stock reports.

Around 20 years ago, Medicrea launched as an orthopedic device company. In 2006, the company went public and began investing in research and development focusing on new technologies to improve standard spinal products.

Most physicians would breach patient confidentiality if they knew that a patient's health status could harm others, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 2: Money, Romance and Patients.

The Food and Drug Administration published draft guidance for the minimal manipulation of human cells tissues and cellular and tissue-based products, and now device companies are making comments.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines whether cervical spine clearance protocols in California are effective at trauma centers.

Is the freehand lateral mass screw fixation in the subaxial cervical spine safe?