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Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield was scheduled to have shoulder surgery Jan. 19, according to a tweet from an ESPN reporter.
Augmedics' new CEO and seven more updates from spine and orthopedic device companies in the last week:
An orthopedic surgeon whose employment was terminated after the abrupt closure of Galesburg (Ill.) Cottage Hospital on Jan. 8 has joined OSF HealthCare's St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg.
Birmingham, Ala.-based Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center is one of several medical groups that partnered to transform a shopping mall into a healthcare facility, Birmingham Business Journal reported Jan. 18.
An administrative assistant at Westmont, Ill.-based Hinsdale Orthopaedics has been sentenced to one year in prison for writing fraudulent opioid prescriptions.
Orthofix and nView Medical have partnered to develop and co-market artificial intelligence-driven guidance systems for spine and orthopedic cases.
Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, N.D., plans to admit as many as 300 spine patients who have been waiting a year or more for surgery at Manitoba Shared Health in Canada, CBC News reported Jan. 19.
Technological innovations have made it possible for nonsurgeon clinicians, such as physiatrists and pain management anesthesiologists, to perform less invasive spinal fusions in outpatient settings, but spine societies are warning against the potential dangers of such specialists performing these procedures…
Louis Gerstenfeld, PhD, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine, has earned the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Orthopedic Research Society International Section of Fracture Repair.