Author: Staff

Operating room efficiency and cost reduction is a focus area for streamlining hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The advent of single-use, disposable instruments and sterile packed procedural kits for orthopedic implants dramatically reduces instrument inventory, lost and out of calibration…

James Moravek, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Ann Arbor (Mich.) Orthopaedic Specialists.

Christopher Wolfla, MD, is a spine surgeon at Milwaukee-based Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin.

Chronic pain affects approximately one in three people in the United States. This common struggle had led to an alarming increase of pain medications and a mounting epidemic of opioid use and deaths. Is there a way we can ease…

Children's Hospital of Orange County in California named Lucy Morizio, MD, director of CHOC Children's Orthopaedic Institute, effective Oct. 22, 2017.

Sarasota (Fla.) Orthopedic Associates named Sandi Wall chief marketing officer, according to the Herald Tribune.

Sports medicine specialists Mark Wagner, MD, opened the Seattle Sports and Regenerative Medicine.

A new study investigates inpatient and 90-day post-discharge outcomes for elective Medicare spine fusion. The study included 874 hospitals with elective cervical and non-cervical spine fusions in the 2012 to 2014 Medicare limited dataset. Researchers focused on 167,395 cases.

Asterias Biotherapeutics reported 12-month data for its Phase 1/2a SCiStar study on spinal cord injury treatment.

TranS1 is partnering with CU Innovations and Aurora-based University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus' orthopedic surgery department.