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An incentive program to reduce the number of unnecessary diagnostic laboratory tests performed in neurosurgical patients at University of California San Francisco resulted in a 47 percent reduction in the number of targeted tests in a year, according to study…

Billings, Mont.-based St. Vincent Healthcare has opened its $8.4 million Orthopedic and Spine Center of Excellence, according to a KULR8 News report.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons announced Clayton M. Christiansen, author and professor at Harvard Business School, will be the 2014 Cushing Orator at the annual meeting.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Prospira PainCare announced that two of its pain management physicians — Adam Sackstein, MD, and Youssef Josephson, DO — have joined the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia.

The government reopened last night after President Barack Obama signed a bill to end the shutdown and avoid debt default, according to a Medscape report.

A new study published in Spine examines the microbiology of surgical site infection in spine surgery.

At the North American Spine Society 28th Annual Meeting in New Orleans earlier this month, several physicians presented on bone morphogenetic protein and managing risk when using the biologic, in light of the recent Yale Open Data Access Project findings.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013.

Orthopedic implants company Stryker has awarded Borgess Bone & Joint Institute in Kalamazoo, Mich., its Center for Advanced Recovery | Joint designation, according to a mLIVE report.

Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine has added fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon Daniel Le, MD, to its medical team.