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The FDA warned Genetech and its president Edwin Pinos for manufacturing stem cell products without FDA approval and deviating from current good manufacturing practice requirements, which may have led to microbial contamination.

Here are 82 spine and neurosurgeon moves in 2018 by state.

The FDA recently vowed to crackdown on unsubstantiated and poor quality stem cell therapies in 2019. Biologic-based products and other emerging medical technologies are at the center of a debate over the best regulatory pathways to ensure patient safety.

A U.S. nonprofit organization found Biogen Inc's Spinraza treatment for spinal muscular atrophy and Novartis AG's experimental gene therapy are both expensive but have the potential to be more cost effective with additional research, according to Reuters.

Spine surgeon Jeffery Gum, MD, of Norton Leatherman Spine Center in Louisville, Ky., is among the surgeons in the state who attributed the cause of a rare spine infection to the increase in heroin use, according to WDRB.com.

Benjamin Bjerke, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained spine surgeon at the Boulder (Colo.) Centre for Orthopedics. Here he discusses upcoming trends for spine surgeons and how to tackle the opioid epidemic.

Here are five things to know about orthopedic surgeon pay heading into 2019.

Sharonville, Ohio-based Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine orthopedic surgeon Mohab Foad, MD, has begun using a surgical technique that allows patients to remain awake during surgery, WLWT Channel 5 News reports.

Salem, Va.-based LewisGale Regional Health System orthopedic surgeon James Farmer, MD, won five medals for swimming races at the Commonwealth Games at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., according to WDBJ Channel 7 News.

Here are six orthopedic and spine device companies that recently launched or released devices.