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Amir Makoui, MD, a neurosurgeon at The Center of Excellence for Spine and Orthopedic Surgery at Mission Community Hospital in San Fernando, Calif., has performed a minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion procedure, one of the first in the San Fernando…
Thomas Schuler, MD, founder of the Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, recently used Mazor Robotics' Renaissance robotic guidance products to perform a minimally invasive procedure during a thoracic fusion at HCA Reston (Va.) Hospital Center. Dr. Schuler and colleague from…
Christopher Ahmad, MD, head team physician for the New York Yankees, will perform elbow surgery on Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, according to an MLB report.
OptimOrthopedics, based in Savannah, Ga., has been chosen to provide sports medicine services for local junior high and high schools, according to a Savannah Morning News report.
Christian Schupp, MD, has joined Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston.
Michael Cobb, a physician's assistant from Rhode Island has been sentenced for receiving kickbacks from medical device company Orthofix, according to a Boston Globe report.
The orthopedic device giant Stryker has reported a profit of $325 million for the second quarter, up 4.6 percent from the same quarter last year.
A professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has received a four-year $1.36 million grant to study the relationship between pain and the parts of the brain associated with emotional response, according to a News-Medical report.
Johnson & Johnson has recalled more than 53,000 Duragesic pain relief skin patches, according to a Wall Street Journal report.