Florida-based physician Dean Fishman, MD, has coined the term "Text Neck" as a new medical condition and has opened the Text Neck Institute to treat it, a NY Daily News report said.
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ONC and Health 2.0 are seeking applications that use the popHealth tool to gather more patient populations data that healthcare providers can use to improve care, according to a Government Health IT report.
Jupiter (Fla.) Medical Center has received $5 million from the Anderson Family Charitable Fund to create The Anderson Family Orthopedic & Spine Center within its planned Florence A. De George Pavilion, according to a TC Palm report.
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St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Mont., will renovate and expand its current orthopedic unit to create an $8.2 million Orthopedic Center of Excellence, according to a Billings Gazette report.
Among collegiate football players, the instances of morphologic abnormalities associated with cam and pincer femoroacetabular impingement are more common than previously thought, according to a study reported in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
Kenneth G. Swan, Jr., MD, has joined Raritan Bay Medical Center's Human Motion Institute in Perth Amboy, N.J., according to a report from New Jersey Today.
Marc J. Philippon, managing partner at The Steadman Clinic and director of the Steadman Phillippon Research Institute in Vail, Colo., was recently named to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation's board of trustees, according to U.S. Ski Team news…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has established the Alan M. Levine, MD, Education Fund, named for the organization's former chair of the AAOS Council on Education who died suddenly in 2009, according to an AAOS Now report.
Lateral mass fixation can be used safely with a low rate of morbidity for cervical myelopathy treatment, according to a study published in the Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques.