Author: Staff

TriStar Hendersonville (Tenn.) Medical Center earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for total hip and total knee replacement certification, according to the Tennessean.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health certified Elite Surgery Center in Uniontown, Pa., to perform outpatient knee replacement surgeries, according to the Herald-Standard.

Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics' Douglas Constant, MD, is performing minimally invasive indirect decompression surgery on spinal stenosis patients.

Bioventus launched its Osteomatrix+ bone graft for various spine and orthopedic applications.

While some hospitals and physicians have adopted stances of limiting prescription opioids in light of the opioid epidemic, these actions have worsened the epidemic, according to a guest column spine surgeon David Hanscom, MD, wrote in Pain News Network.

Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Clinic welcomed Adam Cochran, MD, according to the Gwinnett Citizen.

Adventist Health Lodi (Calif.) Memorial orthopedic surgeon Stephen Howell, MD, was awarded an honorary membership to the German Arthroplasty Society, according to Lodi News-Sentinel.

Additive Orthopaedics received FDA 510(k) clearance for its patient-specific 3D-printed Locking Lattice Plates.

Orthopedic spine surgeon Brandon P. Hirsch, MD, joined the CORE Institute in Phoenix in 2018.

John A. Abraham, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in Philadelphia.