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Alex Vaccaro, MD, is no stranger to risky situations. In June, he performed spine surgery on a Haiti teenager who was badly deformed from two years of tuberculosis ravaging his body. After removing three vertebrae, Dr. Vaccaro was faced with…

Lanx, a biomedical company based in Colorado, will launch its Lumbar Motion Monitor Commercialization project in Columbus, Ohio, according to an Ohio Business Development Coalition news release.

Symmetry Medical, a Warsaw, Ind.-based orthopedic device manufacturer, named Jose Fernandez as senior vice president of new product development, according to a company news release.

Arthritis Research UK has funded a year-long trial which mixes stem cells with cartilage cells to further research osteoarthritis treatment options, according to a BBC News report.

DePuy Orthopedics EMEA , DePuy's European unit, introduced the Sigma High Performance Partial Knee, a replacement system designed to treat progressive osteoarthritis, according to a DePuy news release.

Here is the average intra-operative surgery time for a knee arthroscopy (CPT 29881) in an ASC, by the number of cases the ASC performs each month, according to data from Genascis.

For patients suffering from nerve damage or chronic pain, wires implanted in the spinal cord connected to an electronic device can effectively eliminate pain in two-thirds to three-quarters of eligible patients, according to information Brett Stacey, MD, gave in a…

Gbolahan Okubadejo, MD, has been named head of the newly opened Comprehensive Spine Institute of New Jersey , according to the Jersey City Independent.

Muhammad Akhtar, MD, has joined the Adena Bone & Joint Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, according to the Chillicothe Gazette.

Biomet, based in Warsaw, Ind., would like to invest $26 million in expanding its campus, which will create 280 new positions over a two-year period, according to a report by Bloomberg Business Week.