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Dean Karahalios, MD, is a neurosurgeon with NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Ill. He specializes in treating back and neck pain and his subspecialty is complex spinal surgery. He has special clinical interests in image-guided surgery, minimally invasive techniques,…

Nicholas Greiner, DO, has joined the medical staff of South County Family and Sports Medicine in St. Louis.

Cesareo Tongco, MD, a board-certified family medicine and sports medicine physician, has joined Coshocton (Ohio) Hospital, according to a Coshocton Tribune report.

Misonix, a surgical device company that designs, manufactures and markets products for spine surgery, has entered into new, multi-year agency agreements with six regional spine surgery sales organizations for the marketing of the Misonix BoneScalpel Ultrasonic Bone Cutting System.

The FDA has proposed a new checklist to ensure device companies' submissions for product approvals are complete with required administrative elements.

Medtronic is looking for potential merger and acquisition deals to boost its presence in China, according to a China Daily report.

The Joint Commission awarded Somerset (N.J.) Medical Center's Joint Surgery Institute with the Gold Seal of Approval for total knee and hip replacement surgery, according to NJ.com.

The Institute of Regenerative and Molecular Orthopedics announced that it is now among the small number of centers performing stem cell harvesting and isolation of adipose mesenchymal stem cells, according to PRWeb.

Amer Khalil, MD, of InVivo Therapeutics Holding in Cambridge, Mass., won an MDH Research Award to further InVivo's work on spinal cord injuries, according to Business Wire.

Here are six advantages of surgery center investment for physicians.