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Tadhg O'Gara, MD, an orthopedic spine specialist with Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., has opened an office location in Lexington, N.C., according to a report from The Dispatch.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a major modification to SI-BONE's iFuse Implant System, according to a company news release.

Patients with cervical spondylotic amyotrophy should initially undergo non-surgical treatment, but surgical treatment can be successful when conservative treatment fails, according to an article published in Spine.

According to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's most recent data for 2010, wrong-site anesthesia blocks are the most common wrong-site events, followed by wrong vertebral level and wrong-site hand surgery. Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgeries continue to occur despite the…

Quality Orthopaedic Care in Concord, N.H., recently merged with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord, according to a hospital news release.

Laser Spine Institute's COO Jimmy St. Louis will serve on the board of counselors for the University of Tampa (Fla.), according to a company news release.

MiMedx has announced it will be featuring two technologies focused on spinal surgery at the upcoming SAS — The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery Annual Meeting, according to a company news release.

Saint Anne's Hospital, a Caritas Health Care facility located in Fall River, Mass., is the only healthcare provider in Massachusetts to provide the MAKOplasty technology for partial joint resurfacing, according to a hospital news release.

In an editorial published in the Sun-Sentinel, Paul Sloan, president of the Florida Society of Pain Management Providers, wrote the majority of Florida's pain physicians and centers are legitimate, and law enforcement campaigns pose a threat to the existence of…

Here are four upgrades for optimizing waiting rooms at orthopedic practices.