Orthopedic

From a joint venture orthopedic clinic to an expanded digital offering at a leading New York hospital, here are four key orthopedic partnerships in the past month:

A Kentucky physician has received a five-year prison sentence and must forfeit $12,275 for illegally prescribing opioids at a time when he did not have a legitimate medical practice, the Lexington Herald Leader reports.

From a sports medicine surgeon who invented a mask to protect athletes from COVID-19 to another performing a knee procedure on an NFL player, here are the latest orthopedists making the news:

An inmate at Greenwood (S.C.) County Detention Center escaped from the custody of a prison officer during a Dec. 8 orthopedic visit, only to be found two hours later, the Index-Journal reports.

Zebra Medical received its seventh FDA clearance, this time for artificial intelligence technology to pull bone measurements from X-ray scans for planning orthopedic surgery, according to a Dec. 8 press release.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has invited journalists and news outlets to submit content for its 2021 Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence Awards.

An orthopedic surgeon in Libya has been freed from his captors four days after his abduction, CGTN Africa reports.

Patients involved in the decision-making process for orthopedic surgeries leads to reduced decisional conflict and improved outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

In the past two months, Becker's has reported on five orthopedic groups developing flagship facilities with surgery centers:

From two new physicians at a rural hospital to an incoming orthopedics chief at a New York hospital, here are the latest surgeons on the move: