The Food and Drug Administration granted 31 orthopedic- and spine-related clearances in March.
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Keith Meister, MD, performed shoulder surgery on Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jeff Niemann at Trinity Park Surgery Center in Arlington, Texas, according to an MLB report.
Nine spine surgeons discuss minimally invasive spine techniques and which they have or will be adding into their surgical repertoires.
Ram Mudiyam, MD, MBA, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, Calif., and Pacifica Orthopedics in Huntington Beach, Calif. He is diplomat of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and a member of American Academy of…
The Orthopaedic and Spine Center in Newport News, Va., has recently given a donation to Lackey Free Clinic in Yorktown, Va., according to a Williamsburg Yorktown Daily report.
The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery has announced the best paper winners from ISASS13.
Highlands Health System in Prestonsburg, Ky., announced the addition of orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician Robert Royalty, MD, to its medical staff.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has partnered with Touch of Life Technologies to develop a virtual reality-based shoulder simulator to train and evaluate orthopedic residents in shoulder arthroscopy surgery, according to a Market Watch report.
Martin Schiavenato, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, has invented a machine to assess pain in premature infants and potentially protect them from its negative developmental effects, according to a press release from the foundation.
CMS and OIG have published proposed rules in the Federal Register that seek to extend the existing Stark Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statue Safe Harbor and make them applicable to the donation of electronic health records through 2016.