The Food and Drug Administration granted 26 spine-related 510(k) clearances in December, according to an FDA report.
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Lewis Yocum, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, recently performed shoulder surgery on Boston Red Sox fielder Ryan Kalish, according to a Boston Globe news report.
The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation has partnered with CONMED Linvatec, which will market the company's sports medicine allograft tissues worldwide, according to a company news release.
Atlantic Orthopedics and Wilmington Orthopaedic Group, both of Wilmington, N.C., recently merged to form OrthoWilmington, according to a Greater Wilmington Business Journal report.
Houston-based Essex Woodlands, a global healthcare growth equity and venture capital firm, has entered into a strategic partnership with Smith & Nephew to fund a spinout of its biologics and clinical therapies division, according to a company news release.
Epidural steroid injections significantly increase blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes, but the effect lasts less than two days, according to findings published in Spine.
NeurogesX, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel pain management therapies, appointed Ronald A. Martell as president, CEO and a member of the board, according to a news release.
Gilbert Drozdow, MD, MBA, is president of the anesthesiology division of Sheridan Healthcare, one of the nation's largest providers of hospital-based physician services, including over 1,200 anesthesiology providers and more than 800 providers in emergency medicine, radiology, neonatology and hospitalist…
A new medical center under development in Elkton, Md., that will include a same-day surgical center is nearing completion, according to a Cecil Whig report.