Orthopedic

Tyler, Texas-based orthopedic surgeon Michael Merrick, MD, has been named a 2018 Top Doctor.

Joseph Moskal, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and chair of orthopedics at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va.

Culpeper, Va.-based Craig Reigel, MD, has been named a 2018 Top Doctor.

Orthopedic surgeon Ronald Royce, DO, will be honorably mentioned in The Leading Physicians of the World, a publication of The International Association of HealthCare Professionals.

Patients living alone can be safely discharged directly home after total joint arthroplasty, according to a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Board certified orthopedic surgeon Harold Weems Jr., MD, will join the recently established Christus Trinity Clinic in Texarkana, Texas, effective Thursday.

David Lewallen, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Genomic analysis using next-generation sequencing can identify infecting organisms in over 80 percent of cases of infected joint replacements that had previously escaped detection, according to a study published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

William Maloney, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and professor at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine.

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing disability within two years after joint surgery, according to a study published in the British Journal of Anesthesia.