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The North American Spine Society has announced the winners of the 2012 Research Traveling Fellowship and Research Grant Awards.

DePuy Synthes Spine launched the SPOTLIGHT PL Access System, designed for minimally invasive posterior-lateral fusion.

A recent survey of North American Spine Society membership discussed why people with back pain go without treatment. According to the report, 66.5 percent of spine specialists surveyed believed that the fear of prospective treatments keep their patients from seeking…

Under the Republican's budget plan in the U.S. House of Representatives, federal Medicaid spending would be cut by $1.7 trillion between 2013 and 2022, according to a report by the nonpartisan Urban Institute for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and…

Hooman Melamed, MD, will select one patient each month who cannot afford medical care to receive free treatment for tumors, scoliosis, degenerative disc disease, cervical and lumbar spine disorders and other spine ailments, according to Patch.

ISTO Technologies has received the 2012 Spine Technology Award for its NuQu technology.

The recent investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance into the surgeon/industry relationships, scientific publishing and marketing of Medtronic's bone morphogenic protein product InFuse was released earlier this week and confirms reports from the June 2011 issue of the…

Safe Orthopaedics will introduce its SteriSpine PS Pedicle Screw system.

ISTO Technologies has started a phase-two trial of its NuQu cell-based therapy to further evaluate the efficacy and safety for treatment of pain and disability associated with degenerated spinal discs.

Two studies were presented at the North American Spine Society annual meeting that discussed how demographics impact treatment for spinal trauma.