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Following a day of meetings with Pacira's management, Jefferies analyst David Steinberg reiterated a Buy rating and $109 per share price target on the specialty pharmaceutical company, according to a StreetInsider.com article.

Aurora Spine launched the first wave of its next generation lumbar interbody cages — the ECHO MIS Interbody System and ECHO XL MIS Interbody System.

East Syracuse, N.Y.-based Upstate Orthopedics added Brian Kistler, MD, according to a report by The Post-Standard.

Here are four ways in which the federal or state healthcare exchanges have affected physician practices, according to Physicians Practice's 2014 Great American Physician Survey:

Jonathan M. Simhaee, MD, joined Englewood, N.J.-based The Center for Spinal Disorders and The Center for Pain Management.

Raj Rao, MD, has been named chairperson of the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a Wauwatosa Now report.

Houston-based KSF Orthopaedic Center added two new physicians to the group — Neil Dunleavy, MD, and Timothy Miller, MD.

  Plano-based Texas Back Institute has adopted the iFuse Implant System by SI-BONE for sacroiliac joint pathology, according to a MD News report.

The global biomaterials market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.1 percent from 2013 to 2019, according to a new report from Research and Markets.

  A study published in Spine found Medicaid patients undergoing spine surgery have a higher rate of surgical site infection.