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Indiana Pacers two-time All-Star Tyrese Haliburton underwent surgery to repair his right Achilles tendon at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery, according to a June 24 report from the NBA.  Mr. Haliburton tore the tendon during game 7 of…

Dante Implicito, MD, has been named the inaugural Dr. Michael A. Kelly Endowed Chair in Orthopedics at Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center. The endowed chair was established by the wife and children of late orthopedic surgeon Michael Kelly,…

Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Del. added the Velys robot for spine surgery, a spokesperson told Becker’s in a June 23 email. The hospital is the second pediatric facility in the U.S. to use Velys. Suken Shah, MD, is leading…

Spine surgeon Robert Masson, MD, CEO of eXeX, is leading a new era of artificial intelligence-based operating room technologies. In May, eXeX’s surgical mapping software, used with Apple Vision Pro, launched commercially at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital with Robert Knego,…

A lawsuit challenging Montana Blue Cross-Blue Shield over a claim denial for spine surgery is allowed to move forward, LegalReader.com reported June 20. The judge ruled that the case could be expanded into a class-action lawsuit, the report said. Attorneys…

Cerapedics’ PearlMatrix P-15 peptide enhanced bone graft for lumbar spinal fusion earned FDA premarket approval, the company said June 23. The FDA granted it a Class III drug-device combination product for single-level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in adults for degenerative…

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