Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is releasing a SARS-CoV-2 antibody test it expects will be available in a few weeks.
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The Spine and Orthopedic Center in Santa Barbara, Calif., is using telemedicine to continue seeing patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Santa Barbara News-Press reports.
Daniel Yoshor, MD, was recently appointed chair of the department of neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
A Westchester County, N.Y., neurosurgeon recently recovered from the novel coronavirus and has returned to the hospital where he works, reports the Times Herald-Record.
The masks a Billings, Mont.-based neurosurgeon and dentist designed for 3D printers have gone global, with the open-source software file shared in 148 countries, according to the Billings Gazette.
Medacta reported a sales increase in 2019 and a strong start of the year before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Neurosurgeon Derek Taggard, MD, recently performed the first effective implantation of Nexxt Spine's Matrixx corpectomy system at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, Calif.
Rockford-based OrthoIllinois was already building up its telemedicine program before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but the crisis "fast-forwarded everything," orthopedic surgeon Geoff Van Thiel, MD, told mystateline.com.
In an executive order issued March 19, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey mandated that providers delay elective surgeries to conserve personal protective equipment for those treating COVID-19 patients.
Here are five executive moves announced in the spine and orthopedic device industry in the past month: