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Several companies and surgery center collaborators received the 2010 Community Collaboration Award from The Summit Foundation for sponsoring Free Surgery Day in Vail, Colo., according to a Summit Daily report.

Damion James, a small forward for the New Jersey Nets, will receive surgery for a broken right foot at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, according to a hospital news release.

Jacksonville (Fla.) Orthopaedic Institute has signed an agreement with Voyant Health to license the company's integrated technologies, according to a Voyant Health news release.

Wenzel Spine, an Austin, Texas-based spinal fusion device company, has hired Jon Luedke as executive vice president, according to a company news release.

Theken Spine, an Akron, Ohio-based maker of implantable hardware for spinal fusion surgery, has been approved for a $200,000 Rapid Outreach grant from the Ohio Controlling Board, according to a Medcity News report.

Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Deon Butler recently underwent surgery at the Stanford Medical Center in California to repair a broken bone in his right leg, according to a Seattle Times report.

Fusion rates for open and minimal transforminal lumbar interbody fusion are relatively high and in similar rages, though mTLIF has a trend toward lower complication rates, according to a study published in Spine.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania will begin a new program that will offer hand transplants, directed by L. Scott Levin, MD, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer news report.

John P. Salvo Jr., MD, a sports medicine physician, recently joined Philadelphia's Rothman Institute, according to a practice news release.