Orthopedic

Around 80 people were evacuated from Eisenhower Health's campus in Rancho Mirage, Calif., after a former patient opened fire just outside of the hospital's orthopedic center, according to the Desert Sun.

Bryan Edwards, MD, senior vice president of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, and David Homesley, MD, chief of total joint replacement at Novant Health, discuss the big trends and opportunities for artificial intelligence and robotics in orthopedics…

Intellijoint Surgical appointed Jonathan M. Vigdorchik, MD, to its scientific advisory board.

The Veterans Health Administration is seeking to hire an orthopedic physician in Miami, according to a job posting on Lemon Wire.

A Merritt Hawkins survey examined the proportion of revenue physicians generate for hospitals, finding on average, physicians accounted for $2.3 million in revenue.

Little Falls (Minn.) Orthopedics' Founder Virgil Meyer, MD, will retire July 1 after 36 years in medicine, the Morrison County Record reports.

Here are 16 orthopedic surgeons making headlines.

A New York arbitrator resolved 255 medical malpractice lawsuits against former orthopedic surgeon Spyros Panos, MD, with a collective $140 million award, Medscape reports.

Here are 19 orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians that joined new practices or received new appointments in the past month.

Optimizing modifiable risk factors such as morbid obesity, tobacco smoking and lower serum albumin level before elective orthopedic surgeries reduces the risk of surgical site infection in geriatric patients, according to a study published in the International Wound Journal.