Mark McFarland, MD, a physician with Orthopaedic & Spine Center in Newport News, Va., performed the first outpatient total hip replacement in Virginia. He performed this procedure just weeks after his colleague Boyd Haynes, MD, performed the first outpatient total…
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Thomas Einhorn, MD, an orthopedic physician with Boston University School of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Orthopedics, has recently been in the news for successfully using biologic techniques to heal a patient's broken leg after several other surgeries…
Orthofix's sports medicine division launched the FUSION XT knee brace as the newest addition to the AirTech system, according to a company news release.
Louis Bojrab, MD, an interventional pain specialist in Michigan, performed the state's first minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD) surgery on a 57-year-old patient at the Bixby (Mich.) Medical Center, according to a The Daily Telegram report.
Whiplash could cause anatomical changes resulting in brain injury, says a new study co-authored by several physicians, including Ezriel E. Kornel, MD, FACS, of the Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York, which was published in the July issue of…
Ascension Orthopedics announced the use of its PyroTITAN shoulder implant, the first commercially available PyroCarbon implant, in Australia last month, according to a company news release.
Mark J. Sytsma, a sports medicine physician, has joined K Valley Orthopedics in Kalamazoo, Mich., according to a report by MLive.com.
The Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee will meet in Baltimore next month to discuss whether Medicare will continue to pay for bone-growth products used during spine fusion surgery, such as Medtronic's Infuse and Amplify, according to a Minneapolis…
The field of pediatric scoliosis and spinal disorders has been rapidly expanding with the development of new body braces, the scolioscore scoliosis detection test and legislation in several states calling for schoolchildren to receive scoliosis screening. As an expert in…
Title: Orthopedic Destination Centers: A Model for Future Success Under Healthcare Reform