From a Massachusetts hospital settling a whistleblower suit relating to overlapping surgeries to a spine device company accused of stealing a rival company's sales team and customers, here are the latest orthopedic lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
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Orthopedic devicemaker Conformis has suspended all distribution and business operations in Russia.
The largest physician-owned orthopedic surgery practice in Ohio and four other orthopedic practices to know:
Waypoint Orthopedics added Andrew Iott to its board of directors, the devicemaker said Feb. 28.
A retrospective study published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery Reviews found patients preferred a patient-specific implant over competing ones.
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Orthopedic trauma surgeon Philip Stahel, MD, will be chief medical officer of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, ABC affiliate WLOS reported Feb. 26.
Todd Blumberg, MD, helped build a program at Seattle Children's Hospital aimed at children and adults with hip conditions.
A jury on Feb. 22 awarded $35 million to the family of a man who died hours after undergoing orthopedic surgery at Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., more than seven years ago.
Amid TikTok dances, Twitter memes and Instagram selfies, spine and orthopedic surgeons are carving out their own spaces in social media.
Creating efficiencies and foraging partnerships with physicians could help hospitals slow outpatient migration, two orthopedic surgeons told Becker's.