Within the latest $2.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan floated by president-appointed bipartisan budget watchdogs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles is $600 billion in spending cuts to healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, according to a report by the Wall Street…
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James Andrews, MD, performed knee surgery on South Carolina Gamecocks running back Marcus Lattimore, according to a Bleacher Report.
Michael Shin, MD, St. Margaret's Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Spring Valley, Ill., has earned the subspecialty certificate in orthopedic sports medicine from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, according to a News Tribune report.
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton, Calif., have been awarded Center of Excellence designations by CIGNA, according to a Twin Cities Community Hospital report.
Engineers and researchers are teaming with athletes at Virginia Tech to implement helmet research designed to reduce the risk of concussions, according to a Collegiate Times report.
A study of data from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial conducted to determine whether or not epidural steroid injections would help patients with spinal stenosis found that ESIs were connected to significantly less improvement for patients after a four…