Most physician practices employ between one and five advanced practitioners (PAs or NPs), according to the 2016 Staff Salary Survey by Physician's Practice.
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Jared Foran, MD, is the director of joint replacements at OrthoColorado and St. Anthony Hospitals in Lakewood, Colo. He also practices with Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center, based in Golden, Colo. He focuses on minimally invasive knee and hip surgery.
Neurosurgeon Timothy Witham, MD, serves as director of the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Spinal Fusion Laboratory, director of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center's spine program and co-program director of the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Residency Program. He is also a neurological…
Scotland-based University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom-based Durham University and Taiwan-based Academia Sinica researchers discovered a protein's role in delivering mechanical senses, according to Medical Xpress.
Boston-based Harvard Medical School researchers analyzed the connection between physician payments and higher rates of brand-name drug prescribing, according to ProPublica.
Paris-based SpineGuard will commercially launch its PediGuard Threaded device next week.
Titanium is an ideal material for three-dimensional printing knee and hip implants, according to www.3ders.org. Singapore researchers believe a three-dimensional printable titanium-tantalum alloy mixture is more effective than a titanium-aluminum mixture.
Orthopedic surgeon and Army Col. Martha K. Lenhart, MD, PhD, received the "U.S. Army Hero of Military Medicine" honor at the Heroes of Military Medicine Award banquet in Washington, D.C., according to the U.S. Army homepage.
Wayne, PA, May 9, 2016– Camber Spine Technologies is proud to announce the launch of PROLIX™ and ORTHROS MIS™
The hospital-physician relationship is becoming more important as the healthcare system shifts focus to value-based care, according to a Health Affairs article.