MAKO Surgical reported total revenue of $19.6 million during the first quarter of 2012, a 51 percent increase over the same period last year, but it didn't meet the company's goal to stay on target for full year results.
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Richard A. Berger, MD, an orthopedic hand surgeon at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., performed wrist surgery on Washington Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth, according to an MLB report.
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Richard Fessler, MD, PhD, is a professor of neurosurgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He previously served as chief of neurological surgery at the University of Chicago and has been…
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The Food and Drug Administration granted 33 orthopedic- and spine-related device clearances in April.
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