Orthopedic

Nancy Yen Shipley, MD, debuted the Bear anterior cruciate ligament implant in the Portland, Ore., region, NBC affiliate KGW reported June 16.

Jonathon Forbes, MD, recently returned from a trip to Ukraine, where he was treating those wounded during Russian attacks, Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati reported June 15.

Boston-based Mass General Brigham has appointed Augustus Mazzocca, MD, its first medical director of sports medicine. 

Mission (Texas) Regional Medical Center began using biometric patient-specific hip implants for joint replacements, the Rio Grande Guardian reported June 16.

Taylor Mathis, MD, recently completed the first Stryker InSpace subacromial balloon in the northern half of Mississippi. 

Exer Labs, a digital health company, added three orthopedic surgeons from Colorado to its team of advisers.

Conmed completed its $145 million acquisition of In2Bones, a devicemaker focused on upper and lower extremities.

OrthoPediatrics is set to acquire Pega Medical in a $33 million deal.

Spinal anesthesia is increasingly being used instead of general anesthesia to improve patient comfort and reduce opioid use, but it could be having the opposite effect on hip fracture patients, according to research published June 13 in Annals of Internal…

Orthopaedic Specialists of Austin (Texas) has joined Growth Orthopedics, a management services organization backed by Miami-based Trivest Partners.