Pittsburgh Penguins center Brian Boyle had surgery at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside in Pittsburgh, the team said May 16.
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A sports medicine specialist was killed May 15 in a shooting that wounded four others in Orange County, Calif., CBS reported May 16.
Orthopedic surgeon Stephen Snyder, MD, will be awarded the Arthroscopy Association of North America's lifetime achievement award at the organization's annual meeting in San Francisco on May 19.
Orthopedic surgeon Gary Lynn Rasmussen, MD, is arguing that the $20 million verdict he won against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Synthes should be tripled to $60 million, according to Law360.
The number of medical devices earning FDA's breakthrough designation has grown exponentially in recent years, and many were given to orthopedic products.
Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare added the Prodisc L artificial disc to its services.
Sravisht Iyer, MD, recently completed his 100th robotic-assisted spine surgery with the ExcelsiusGPS robot in New York City.
CMS has granted its new technology add-on payment to SI-Bone's iFuse Bedrock Granite implant, which received the FDA's breakthrough device designation in November and is designed for sacroiliac fusion and sacropelvic fixation.
From milestone surgeries to emerging data and ongoing challenges, here is how artificial disc technology has developed in the last several decades:
Dane Wukich, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, received an award from Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for his work in limb salvaging.