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BACK Center, an orthopedic surgeon group in Melbourne, Fla., and its medical director Richard Hynes, MD, are suing Osler Medical in Melbourne for failing to comply in an agreement, according to a Florida Today news report.
Maine Spinecare, a regional center for treating back and neck problems, recently opened in Auburn, Maine, according to a practice news release.
A prospective, randomized, controlled trial of the i-FACTOR biologic bone graft from Cerapedics has shown a 97.8 percent fusion rate in single- and multi-level posterior lumbar interbody fusion, according to a company news release.
Wayne State University's College of Nursing has received a three-year, $1,078,000 award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study the management of cancer pain in African Americans, according to a university news release.
Patients who take daily doses of opioids for nonmalignant pain are at higher risk of opioid-related mortality, especially if daily doses exceed clinically recommended thresholds, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.