Sarasota (Fla.) Orthopedic Associates named Sandi Wall chief marketing officer, according to the Herald Tribune.
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Sports medicine specialists Mark Wagner, MD, opened the Seattle Sports and Regenerative Medicine.
A new study investigates inpatient and 90-day post-discharge outcomes for elective Medicare spine fusion. The study included 874 hospitals with elective cervical and non-cervical spine fusions in the 2012 to 2014 Medicare limited dataset. Researchers focused on 167,395 cases.
Asterias Biotherapeutics reported 12-month data for its Phase 1/2a SCiStar study on spinal cord injury treatment.
TranS1 is partnering with CU Innovations and Aurora-based University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus' orthopedic surgery department.
Alphatec named Patrick Miles its new executive chairman and Quentin Blackford a new board member, effective Oct. 2.
HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, resigned Sept. 29 in the midst of an inspector general investigation, according to The New York Times.
Seattle-based Swedish Cherry Hill Campus will continue to take part in the Medicare program, following a regulatory investigation, according to The Seattle Times.
Castle Rock (Colo.) Adventist Hospital is the first in the state to adopt Synaptive Medical's BrightMatter technology.
Contact sports cost high school and college athletes thousands of injuries each year. The New York Times reported making contact sports noncontact would save 49,600 injuries among athletes per year.