The number of professional baseball players with instances of abdominal muscle strains increased over the past two decades, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Interventional Spine, an Irvine, Calif.-based spine device company, has received FDA clearance for its Opticage Expandable Intervertebral Body Fusion device, according to a company news release.
ONC's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, along with the HHS Office of Civil Rights, has initiated a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project, according to an ONC Health IT news release.
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The University of Florida's College of Medicine, in Gainesville, Fla., honored Albert Rhoton Jr., MD, during its annual Neurosurgery Research Days, according to a UF College of Medicine Insider report.
Although Bristol-Myers changed the label on its Kenalog steroid seven months ago to say that it's "not recommended" for injection into the epidural space near the spine, the steroid is still being used that way, according to a Bloomberg report.
The International Headache Society has released new recommendations for the conduct of acute and preventive migraine clinical trials, and the guidelines have been published in the IHS journal Cephalalgia.
John A. Gillen, II, MD, recently joined New Century Orthopedics of Pittsburgh, according to a report from The Morning Sun.
Zimmer Holdings has reported net sales of $1.17 billion for the fourth quarter of 2011, a 2.9 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a company news release.
A new California bill, which went into effect on Jan. 1, expands the existing state law that prohibits physicians from self referring patients for workers' compensation cases to include physician-owned distributorships, according to a Hogan Lovells news report.