UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco has opened an eight-bed Children’s Neuroscience Specialty Unit, expanding its inpatient capacity for children with neurologic and neurosurgical conditions. The unit is the hospital’s first inpatient expansion since it opened in 2015. It provides…
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Houston-based TYBR Health, a medtech and orthopedic regenerative medicine company, has secured $30 million in a Series A financing round. The company will use the funds to expand commercial access to its FDA-approved B3 GEL System, broaden its product indications…
A child with a malformed hip does not become a different patient on their 18th birthday. Similarly, the disease does not recognize the border between pediatric and adult medicine. The healthcare system often does recognize that border, however. Children’s hospitals…
A patient sees a primary care physician for back pain, then a physical therapist, then a pain specialist, perhaps a chiropractor, perhaps another pain specialist. There may be injections, an ablation, new imaging and weeks between appointments. Eventually, the patient…
Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based North Star Health Alliance will hold a public hearing July 30 in Watertown on its plan to close North Country Orthopaedic Group’s ASC, one of three hearings scheduled the week of July 28 on the bankrupt system’s broader…
Orthopedic medtech company Zimmer Biomet has filed a lawsuit against one of its former executives, claiming he stole confidential information, according to a July 20 report from The Indiana Lawyer. Zimmer Biomet is seeking an injunction against Kristoff Goson, alleging…
Behavioral health utilization rose 62.6 percent between 2018 and 2024 and the national mental health workforce is on pace to fall nearly 100,000 full-time counselors short of demand by 2038. Emergency departments are absorbing much of that strain: hospitals reporting…
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- Sara Gotheridge, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Array
- Dominique Dietz, Director, Virtual Behavioral Health, OSF HealthCare
Legal pressure on orthopedic and spine providers came from multiple directions in the second quarter, spanning payer fraud suits, a kickback guilty plea and a device liability claim. Here are five orthopedic lawsuits to know from second-quarter 2026:
Incomplete decompression, recurrent disc herniation and retained disc fragment are among the most common causes of failed lumbar spine surgery, according to a July 20 study published in Cureus. Here are 10 notes on the study:
Vector Science & Therapeutics, a medical technology and therapeutic delivery company, plans to build a dedicated distributor network to commercialize its peptide portfolio across the orthopedic, sports and regenerative medicine markets. The network will target orthopedic and sports medicine practices,…
