Smith & Nephew has issued a safety notice, updating the indications for its Birmingham Hip Modular Head implants after data showed a 1.29 percent and 1.12 percent failure rate on two separate joint replacement registries in the U.K. and Australia,…
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Biomet has announced a lifetime replacement warranty covering its Oxford Partial Knee when it is implanted with the Signature personalized positioning guides.
Rockford (Ill.) Orthopedic Associates is constructing an expanded clinic, according to a WREX report.
The number of primary total knee arthroplasty procedures has increased more than 161 percent over the last 20 years, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Orthopedic cases continue to move into surgery centers as CMS updates its list of approved procedures, and anesthesia techniques develop. Here T.K. Miller, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Carilion Clinic Orthopedics and medical director of the Roanoke (Va.) Ambulatory Surgery…
Far more people are interested in having access to online communications services to facilitate interactions with their healthcare providers than can currently utilize them, according to a Harris Interactive poll.
Paul Cadorette, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, COSC, CASCC, director of education for mdStrategies, discusses five steps to make sure surgery centers are maximizing ophthalmology reimbursement.
Beaumont Health System plans to build an $18 million, 80,000-square-foot neuroscience center on its Royal Oak, Mich., campus, according to The Detroit News.
Douglas Wong, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in operative and non-operative treatment of spinal disorders in both adult and pediatric patients. He practices with Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center in Denver. He's also affiliated with Ortho Colorado…
Carey Windler, MD, an orthopedic surgeon of Austin Sports Medicine and team physician for the University of Texas, has been named to the university's Men's Athletics Hall of Honor.