Author: Staff

The National Association for Business Resources named Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics one of its "Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in Atlanta" for a third consecutive time, Cobb Business Journal reports.

Chinese biologics technology company WuXi Biologics is expanding its conjugation solution center to include commercial manufacturing later this year.

Alex Kafi, MD, a West Bloomfield, Mich.-based physician was sentenced to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone pills, according to the Department of Justice.

Medtronic's board of directors approved an 8 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend.

The Securities and Exchange Commission ended its investigation into Misonix, a minimally invasive ultrasonic medical device company with products used in orthopedic and spine procedures.

Researchers in the department of neurosurgery at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine developed and evaluated predictive models for adverse events associated with spine surgery.

A study published in Pain Medicine found that preoperative opioid use increased adverse event rates after elective total joint arthroplasty.

Three spine surgeons discuss the precautions they take to ensure patient safety before, during and after surgery.

Denver-based Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children performed the state's first vertebral body tethering procedure on Sophia Clem, 11, 4 CBS Denver reports.

Seth Grossman, MD, of Englewood, N.J.-based The Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, implanted Aesculap Implant Systems' activL Artificial Disc in a patient to address chronic lower back pain, Jewish Link reports.