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Here are five key orthopedic and spine developments at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush this year.

Here are four orthopedic group mergers in the past month.

William Meyers, MD, performed a core muscle surgery on Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby Nov. 14, the team reports.

Here are six sports medicine physicians who recently joined new practices or took on new positions in the past month:

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Sharonville, Ohio, is providing Regenexx regenerative medicine treatments as an alternative to orthopedic surgery, reports WCPO.

The FDA provided Astura Medical 510(k) clearance for its Alta anterior cervical corpectomy spacer system.

The Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences established a committee to explore ways to reduce opioid prescriptions in 2016, Healio reports.

Saba Pasha, PhD, recently published a study exploring how variation in spinal patterns may lead to spinal deformities seen in scoliosis, reports Medical Xpress.

Kee Kim, MD, is chief of spinal neurosurgery at Sacramento-based UC Davis School of Medicine and co-director of the UC Davis Spine Center.

Wilmington, N.C.-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center wants to dedicate its new $91 million patient tower to heart and vascular procedures instead of orthopedic and spine care, WilmingtonBiz reports.