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Michael Dorsi, MD, is a board certified neurosurgeon at Calif.-based Ventura County Neurosurgical Associates.
Michael Halperin, MD, is scheduled to host a seminar "Advances in Spine Surgery" where he will dive into a new minimally invasive procedure, according to The Day.
A New Mexico bankruptcy judge ordered Quorum Health Resources of Tennessee to pay an Alamogordo, N.M.-based Gerald Champion Regional Hospital patient $2.3 million after a failed bone cement spinal procedure, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
The only neurosurgeon on the island, Maui (Hawaii) Memorial Medical Center's Thomas Rogers, MD, has been unable to treat patients for the past few months due to health concerns, Maui News reports.
Physicians at Green Bay, Wis.-based HSHS St. Vincent are the first in the state to offer the ExcelsiusGPS for minimally invasive back and neck procedures.
Researchers from St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine and New York City-based Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons examined health-related quality of life measures for complex spinal reconstructive surgery patients.
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Surgeons performed the first procedures using Camber Spine's SPIRA-C Open Matrix Cervical Interbody device.
WalletHub analysts analyzed more than 170 of the most populated U.S. cities to determine the healthiest and unhealthiest places.