Johnson & Johnson and Synthes have entered into a definitive agreement, in which Johnson & Johnson will acquire Synthes for $21.3 billion, according to a company news release.
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Leon Abram, MD, a spine surgeon, joined Danville (Va.) Spine Center, a division of Danville Orthopedic Clinic.
NeurogesX, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel pain management therapies, has posted fourth quarter total revenue of $2.3 million, according to a company news release.
Forty-one percent of orthopedic surgeons are salaried, and those surgeons earned an average of $24,923 more than orthopedic surgeons who were owners or partners in a practice or group, according to the 2010 Compensation & Employment Report from Locum Tenens.
Joseph Burkhardt, DO, of Brookside Surgery Center in Battle Creek, Mich., will be participating in a 10-year follow-up trial of the ConforMIS iUni G2 knee resurfacing device, according to a report from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
The Kentucky attorney general's office has released an opinion statement saying county governments do not have the power to ban pain clinics, according to a Lexington Herald-Leader news report.
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Prescription opioid pain medications are driving an "epidemic" of unintentional overdose deaths, according to a news release by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
A New Bern, N.C., pain management physician has pled guilty to healthcare fraud and been sentenced to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, according to a Sun Journal report. Michael K. Nunn, MD, practiced under Community Wellness Center in New Bern,…
Cone-beam CT technology can benefit spinal navigation because the X-ray emitter rotates around a fixed center and is able to take conventional images that can be reconstructed on any plane or three-dimensional images, according to an AAOS Now report by…