Christopher Chaput, MD, the director of spinal trauma and orthopedic research at Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Medical Center, offered a biological perspective on surface treatments for spinal implants in an article in Spine.
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Charles Kanaly, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon at The Neurosurgery Center of Southern New England in Fall River, Mass.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers investigated the impact of opioid use on adult spinal deformity spine surgery patients.
Safe Orthopaedics has sold more than 10,000 of its SteriSpine surgical kits.
By 2030, the U.S. may be short as many as 120,000 physicians, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges report.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association unveiled a concept paper for a new payment model regarding opioid use disorder treatment.
Robert Fisher, MD, of Frederick (Md.) Surgical Center, is encouraging patients to choose outpatient surgery that does not require opioid use for knee replacement operations, according to the Frederick News Post.
Joshua Hackel, MD, injected regenerative stem cells into the forearm of San Francisco Giants pitcher Mark Melancon, MLB.com reports.
Thomas DiLiberti, MD, repaired the broken hamate bone in the left hand of Texas Rangers' Delino DeShields, MLB.com reports.
As Medtronic, Siemens Healthcare and GE Healthcare continue to develop new intraoperative imaging equipment, demand for new equipment continues to rise.