Johnson & Johnson has decided to stop production of its DePuy all-metal hip replacements after Aug. 31, though executives say the decision is not related to safety or effectiveness, according to The Legal Examiner.
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Harbor House Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Hingham, Mass., announced it will open a new, dedicated short-term orthopedic unit on June 11.
Tell City, Ind.-based Ivy Tech Community College announced the appointment of Tom Till as director of the college's Orthopedic and Advanced Manufacturing Training Center in Warsaw, Ind.
Yi Li, MD, a neurologist of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, has led a study providing evidence that regeneration of spinal cord fibers could lead to functional recovery in stroke victims.
More than 70 percent of CIOs support the proposed one-year extension of meaningful use stage 2 that would result in its continuation into 2016, according to a snap survey by healthsystemCIO.com in May.
Brian Cole, MD, MBA, and Anthony Romeo, MD, have recently been named on an Oxford University Press-released list of the world's top orthopedic surgeons who have had the highest impact factor on the world of orthopedic literature.
On May 21, Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute, founded by board-certified orthopedic surgeon Michael Boothby, MD, broke ground on a two-story, 20,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
Russell Warren, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, will perform knee surgery on New York Giants fullback Henry Hynoski, according to an ESPN New York report.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has given the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute at LifeBridge Health, based in Baltimore, two Get With the Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards and the Target: Stroke designation.
Charles Mick, MD, president of the North American Spine Society, responded to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision to publish a price list based on chargemaster data for the 100 most common hospital procedures, including spinal fusion, in…