Patients who have received a higher education have better improvement with nonoperative treatment than patients who have not completed higher education, according to a report published in Spine.
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Frank Cordasco, MD, a surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, recently performed a procedure to repair St. Louis Rams left tackle Roger Saffold's torn pectoral muscle, according to a Hospital for Special Surgery news release.
BioLineRx's BL-1021 drug, an orally available small molecule for neuropathic pain, was safe and well tolerated in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled study, according to a news release.
Despite the uncertainty associated with today's healthcare system, John Caruso, MD, a neurosurgeon with Parkway Neuroscience & Spine Institute in Hagerstown, Md., believes that now is a great time to be practicing medicine. His optimistic outlook focuses on the potential…
Several medical and orthopedic device company stocks recovered after suffering significant losses at the end of last week, perhaps due to a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announcement that it would conduct checks before authorizing select treatment in the…
Mininder Kocher, MD, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital, recently discussed the trend of young athletes experiencing ACL tears in an ABC News report.
Vladimir Dadashev, MD, and Sachin N. Shah, MD, neurosurgeons with a professional interest in spine surgery, recently joined Neurological Surgery in Rockville Centre, N.Y., according to a practice news release.
An article recently published in Health Affairs examines the literature on percutaneous vertebroplasty and questions whether payors have appropriately adapted to new findings in the comparative effectiveness research to provide better patient outcomes at a lower cost.
A new report from Millennium Research Group suggests that orthopedic surgeons are content with orthopedic device companies and their products, while other specialists, such as cardiologists, express more discontent, according to a MRG news release.
Here are 16 statistics on orthopedic surgeon compensation by the total medical revenue accrued annually by the surgeons' practice, based on the Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data. The total medical revenue includes fee-for-service collections,…