Raynham, Mass.-based Mitek Sports Medicine launched the HEALIX 3.4mm Suture Anchor for rotator cuff repair and the double-loaded minimally invasive partial thickness rotator cuff repair system for the HEALIX TRANSTEND Implant System.
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Carlsbad, Calif.-based Aurora Spine has appointed Neville Alleyne, MD, to its scientific advisory board.
New York City-based Paradigm Spine launched its coflex Solution website, a patient-centered site with information on lumbar spinal stenosis and both surgical and non-surgical treatment options.
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Sev Hrywnak, MD, will give a presentation titled "ACOs and the ASC, How to Prepare to Enter One."
George Paletta, MD, St. Louis Cardinals team physician, performed a ligament transplant procedure to repair the right elbow of closing pitcher Jason Motte, according to a St. Louis Today report.
On May 7, Behrooz Akbarnia, MD, led a team of surgeons at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in performing two pediatric surgeries with Ellipse Technologies' MAGnetic Expansion Control System.
The Department of Defense has awarded the University of California, San Diego and Vital Imaging a second grant to continue a research project examining how body armor and assault packs carried by the U.S. Marines affect the spine.
A multicenter retrospective review of pediatric patients who underwent spinal instrumentation to correct scoliosis published in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery examined the surgical site infection rate for different etiologies.
Daniel Resnick, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon who specializes in spine surgery. He serves on the North American Spine Society's board of directors as the research council director. Dr. Resnick has been a member of the organization since 1999 and…
Hooman Melamed, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon. He practices at DISC Sports and Spine Center, with offices in Marina del Rey and Beverly Hills, Calif., and serves as an adjunct assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Touro School of…