A North Carolina orthopedic surgeon and his wife were sentenced to five years in prison Jan. 28 for federal employment and individual income tax fraud.
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Stephen Michaels, MD, was named president of Clinton-based MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center and senior vice president of Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health, according to a news release shared Jan. 30 in The Southern Maryland Chronicle.
Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine opened a standalone orthopedic suite at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill.
John Awowale, MD, has been named a physician partner at Green Bay, Wis.-based BayCare Clinic.
Royal, Va.-based Valley Health Warren Memorial Hospital has earned the Gold Seal of Approval for total knee replacement and total hip replacement certification from The Joint Commission.
Neurosurgeons at Allegheny Health Network Spine Center in Pittsburgh have implemented SI-Bone's iFuse Implant System to treat sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
Stryker posted $4.7 billion in fourth-quarter net sales, with full-year sales increasing 19.2 percent to $17.1 billion compared to 2020.
Kleiner Device Labs, a startup founded by Jeff Kleiner, MD, has acquired 23 U.S. patents for its spine technologies and plans to break into the spinal fusion market, currently valued at $14 billion, according to Benzinga.
By 2030, the shortage of physicians in the U.S. is expected to reach 121,300, with neurosurgery among the specialties anticipating a significant deficit, according to an annual report published Jan. 26 by advisory group Physicians Thrive.
Total joint replacement patients on average consumed fewer than half the number of opioid pills prescribed by their surgeon, according to a study published in the January/February 2022 edition of the Journal of Orthopaedics.