William Vollmar, MD, a former Lancaster County sports medicine doctor, was sentenced to nine and a half to 20 years in prison, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.
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Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute hired Maria Kyriacou, MD, according to a Nov. 12 press release from Baptist Health South Florida.
A series of articles published in the October edition of the International Journal of Spine Surgery have demonstrated favorable fusion results of the FlareHawk interbody fusion system without the use of biologics.
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health Physician Group has hired 19 physicians this year, including spine surgeon William Neway, MD.
The first human clinical trial using stem cells to treat spina bifida has been made possible thanks to a $9 million grant provided Nov. 12 by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, and Paul Park, MD, were the first surgeons to use the ExcelsiusGPS Interbody Solutions system, Globus Medical said in a Nov. 12 news release.
Neurosurgeon Roberto Rey Dios, MD, has joined Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Gifford, Fla., according to a Nov. 12 report by South Florida Hospital News.
Spine Innovations became an independent company Nov. 11, after FH Ortho, its parent company, was acquired by Olympus.