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Author: Staff

The recent discussions of healthcare reform have never been more interesting. This article briefly examines positions taken by several newspapers and their readers with respect to healthcare reform.

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Leslie Geddes, PhD, a former bioengineering professor at Purdue University who is credited with more than 30 patents for biomedical devices, has died at age 88, according to a release from Purdue.

DePuy Spine has agreed to fund 25 graduate medical education fellowships in spine care through the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, according to a release from the foundation.

Hanger Orthopedics, which sells prostheses and operates rehabilitation centers, reported third-quarter revenue of $192.3 million, up 7.6 percent from a year ago, according to a release from the company.

A year after physicians at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University implanted a telescoping prosthesis to replace the entire upper arm bone of a three-year-old boy, the boy is thriving, according to a release from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

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