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Stryker's Group President of Global Quality and Business Operations Lonny Carpenter plans to retire March 31, 2019.

Tiger Woods may win his first major title in a decade at the 2018 Masters in Augusta, Ga., after undergoing spinal fusion surgery last year, USA Today reports.

Evangelos Megariotis, MD, is banned from prescribing opioids after investigators discovered more than 75 percent of the orthopedic surgeon's patients were written prescriptions, North Jersey reports.

A group of orthopedic and anesthesia providers agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle allegations of false Medicaid claims for prescriptions purchased outside the U.S. and without FDA approval.

Diagnostic and interventional ultrasound imaging has several uses in sports medicine, and the field is rapidly evolving.

After overcoming what David Cech, MD, told Rich Dauer, was a 3 percent chance of survival, Mr. Dauer threw the first pitch of the Houston Astros' first home game after the team unveiled its World Series banner, The Baltimore Sun…

Nancy Epstein, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon at Winthrop Neuroscience Medical in Mineola, N.Y.

Here are five key notes on orthopedic and spine device companies from the past week.

Robert Trousdale, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

Richard Wohns, MD, recently traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, to participate in the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital's Spine Week.