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Orthopedic

Springfield, Mass.-based Shriners Children's New England has added pediatric orthopedic surgeon Elizabeth Bizier, MD, according to a Jan. 13 report from NBC affiliate WWLP.

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Birmingham, Ala.-based Grandview Medical Center will start construction on an ASC focused on orthopedics and pain management, the Birmingham Business Journal reported Jan. 10. 

Anna Miller, MD, was named chair of orthopedics at Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine in Lebanon, N.H., according to a Jan. 8 news release.

A study from a research team a Boston-based Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, published in The Journal of Arthroplasty, has determined that patients with a high body mass index cost facilities up to 7% for joint arthroplasty. 

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