Thomas Zdeblick, MD, a spine surgeon and chairman of the department of orthopedics and rehabilitation at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who co-authored three studies with Medtronic and received the highest-known physician payments from the company at $21 million,…
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Chris Washick, RN, CASC, director of operators for the surgery center, discusses how Orthopedic and Sports Surgery Center successfully added total joint replacements. Orthopedic and Sports Surgery Center in Appleton, Wis., opened in 2006 as an outpatient surgery center owned…
Omar Ishrak, chairman and CEO of Medtronic, responded to a series of articles attacking the company's original trials and promotion of recombinant human bone morphogenic protein-2, saying that integrity and patient safety are his highest priorities, according to a company…
The American College of Sports Medicine released new guidelines on the recommended quality and quantity of exercise for adults, according to an organization news release.
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients may have a higher prevalence of osteopenia and deranged bone quality, which could contribute to the etipathogenesis of spinal deformities in those patients, according to a study published in Spine.
Josh Blomgren, MD, an internal sports medicine physician at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, will serve as head physician to rapper Snoop Dogg's Snoop Dogg Youth Football League, according to an All Hip Hop News report.
People actively engaged in social media and patient-specific websites are 60 percent more likely than the general population to participate in a clinical trial, according to a recent survey.
Frank Cammisa Jr., MD (Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City). Dr. Cammisa is the chief of the spine service at the Hospital for Special Surgery and an assistant scientist in the hospital's research division. He also serves as an…
A new study from St. Jude Medical found that peripheral nerve stimulation of the occipital nerve significantly reduced the number of headache days per month in patients with chronic migraine.