Sonia Eden, MD, has been appointed head of adult neurosurgery at Detroit Medical Center, the first Black woman to hold the role, and second to lead a U.S. hospital neurosurgery program, Commercial Appeal reported April 8.
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The Missouri Supreme Court on April 6 pushed a knee replacement case involving the University of Missouri back to an appeals court, despite a settlement being reached in March, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports.
Medical device companies and surgeons are banding together to ask CMS to roll back new prior authorization requirements set to go into effect July 1.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus was the first in the state to perform a shoulder replacement surgery with mixed reality 3D hologram technology.
Matt Tharp has been named CFO of Holt, Mich.-based Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, an orthopedic implant manufacturing company, according to an April 6 release.
Florida health officials have ordered a spine surgeon to take additional courses and pay a fine after performing disc replacement surgery on the wrong part of a patient's spine, the Miami Herald reports.
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Stanford Health Care-ValleyCare is repurposing an 80,000-square-foot gym at its Livermore (Calif.) campus into a specialty facility that will provide spine, orthopedic and gastrointestinal care, according to The Independent.