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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.

The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning a Vermont law that prohibits data mining companies from using physicians' prescription records for marketing purposes, according to a New York Times news report.

In a comparison of subacute and chronic back pain, researchers found three key differences in the clinical features of these two pain conditions, according to a study published in the Journal of Pain.

William Taylor, MD, a retired orthopedic surgeon, has begun connecting Medicaid patients with spine and joint problems with surgeons who are able to treat them, according to an American-Statesman news report.