Much speculation surrounds the changes healthcare reform will bring, and physicians from every specialty, including spine, are concerned about how to meet the challenges it will present. Here, spine surgeons and industry leaders discuss the ten aspects of healthcare reform…
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John A. Bergfeld, MD, a senior surgeon and director of operating rooms at the Cleveland Clinic, will receive the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer news story.
Using an MRI study to assess the dynamics of post-traumatic Gd-DTPA leakage into an injured spinal cord seems to be a good approach for monitoring the local secondary lesion changes, according to an article published in Spine.
CoxHealth in Springfield, Mo., plans to purchase the Springfield (Mo.) Neurological and Spine Institute for an undisclosed price, according to a News-Leader news report.
ActiveO, an Incline Village, Nev.-based medical device company, has filed litigation against Medtronic in a Salt Lake City federal court, claiming trademark and copyright infringement of ActiveO's trade name for bone cement, according to an ActiveO news release.
Mark Cohen, MD, and John Fernandez, MD, hand surgeons at Chicago's Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, have performed surgery on Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah for a torn ulna collateral ligament in his right thumb, according to a practice news release.