Peter E. Rork, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Jackson Hole, Wyo., founded Dog is My CoPilot, a nonprofit organization that flies animals different cities for adoption instead of placing them in kill shelters, according to an AAOS Now report.
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The Mayo Clinic has teamed up with USA Hockey for a video about injury prevention, according to a Science Daily report.
The Spine Health Foundation was founded by Executive Director Carol Conduff to provide spine care — including surgical procedures — for underserved populations in the United States. This non-profit organization serves people who are uninsured and underinsured with a variety…
HHS' Office of Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion in response to a hospital's proposal to offer community physicians and practices free access to an electronic interface, through which they could transmit orders for certain services from the hospital.
John Handal, MD, is the chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery and director of spine surgery at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia.
Smith & Nephew has released an extension to the LEGION Total Knee System, featuring implants thinner in the medial and lateral dimension.
Zimmer issued an urgent recall of its PEEK Ardis Inserter, an instrument for implanting the PEEK Ardis Interbody Spacer in the spine.
John Adler, MD, a neurosurgeon from Stanford, launched a medical journal to make research more accessible to the public, according to the Stanford School of Medicine blog Scope.
Surgeons and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco recently extracted data on hospital readmissions following spine surgery at UCSF to determine the reason for the readmissions. They found the number of readmissions attributed to the spine surgeons was…
Matthew Rupert, MD, has joined Spine Treatment Centers of America in Nashville, Tenn.