Author: Staff

Alphatec named Patrick Miles its new executive chairman and Quentin Blackford a new board member, effective Oct. 2.

HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, resigned Sept. 29 in the midst of an inspector general investigation, according to The New York Times.

Seattle-based Swedish Cherry Hill Campus will continue to take part in the Medicare program, following a regulatory investigation, according to The Seattle Times.

Castle Rock (Colo.) Adventist Hospital is the first in the state to adopt Synaptive Medical's BrightMatter technology.

Contact sports cost high school and college athletes thousands of injuries each year. The New York Times reported making contact sports noncontact would save 49,600 injuries among athletes per year.

Anesthesia & Analgesia published a new study examining the results of the Accuro image guided spinal navigation system. Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) University conducted the study.

Medscape surveyed physicians to find out the how they communicate with patients outside of the office.

Atul Kamath, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Penn Orthopaedics in Philadelphia.

Frank Phillips, MD, is a spine surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.

A new study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine examines malpractice litigation after spine surgery.