Orthopedic

Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., will conduct a free community education event on MAKOplasty technology for knee and hip procedures.

Shriners hospitals in Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Galveston, Texas, will launch a telemedicine pilot next year to connect children with orthopedic specialists.

The orthopedic navigation systems market is projected to rapidly grow from 2015 to 2022, according to medGadget.

Fairmont Regional Medical Center in Fairmont, W.Va., and Mountainstate Orthopedic Associates in Morgantown, W.Va., partnered to provide orthopedic care.

According to researcher and author Vasily Shishkin, Blender can be a useful tool in preparing for orthopedic surgeries.

Orthopedic spine surgeon Jaswinder Grover, MD, was dismissed Oct. 27 from a civil lawsuit filed in California earlier this year, according to India West.

A Columbia University professor, Helen H. Lu, PhD, won a three-year $1.125 million Translational Research grant to study tendon-to-bone integration for rotator cuff repair, according to News-Medical.

Kathryn Williams, MD, serves as an assistant professor in the department of orthopedics and rehabilitation at The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. Dr. Williams specializes in adult foot and ankle surgery, and is board-certified…

The Interventional Orthopedics Foundation, a Broomfield, Colo.-based nonprofit, warns about faulty stem cell products after testing placental tissue-derived products. The products contained no live stem cells.

Richard M. Marks, MD, led an effort to give homeless men shoes, socks and, in some cases, a quick free foot exam, according to a Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel report.