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Three spine surgeons weigh in on the advantages and disadvantages of 3D-printed spinal devices.

Here are five orthopedic and spine device companies with recently launched or released devices.

Andrew Odland, MD, will join Iowa Specialty Hospital in Fort Dodge, according to The Wright County Monitor.

Outpatient orthopedic care in Louisiana is sparse for patients with Medicaid insurance, according to a study published in Journal of the National Medication Association.

An AI platform designed to identify various acute neurological illnesses, such as stroke, hemorrhage and hydrocephalus, recognized disease in CT scans in just 1.2 seconds, according to New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 

Life Spine reported a 70 percent revenue increase of its Prolift Expandable Spacer System in the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year.

Lindsay Remy, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Holston Medical Group in Kingsport, Tenn.

Orthopedic surgeon Timothy Kremchek, MD, estimates about 20 percent of the roughly 6,500 procedures he has performed in the past five years involved patients age 18 or younger, WLWT5 reports.

After spending 11 days at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Indians outfielder Leonys Martin will miss the rest of the 2018 season as he fights a bacterial infection, ESPN reports.

Orthopedic surgeons David Evanich, MD, and Chris Evanich, MD, led One World Surgery teams to complete 59 total joint surgeries in one week at the Holy Family Surgery Center in Jalaca, Honduras.