A study at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery is exploring if a "prehabilitation" program could empower patients undergoing knee replacements and lead to improved outcomes.
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After initially deciding to let its neurosurgery residency program close next year, Detroit Medical Center announced plans on Nov. 13 to attempt to save the program, according to Crain's Detroit Business.
A. Rashard Dacus, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at UVA Health in Charlottesville, Va.
Robert Rosenthal, PhD, was appointed to the board of directors at InVivo Therapeutics on Nov. 8.
A junior nursing student at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven died Nov. 10, two days after suffering a spinal cord injury during a gymnastics team workout NBC News reports.
Steven Kalkanis, MD, is chair of the department of neurosurgery at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and medical director of the Henry Ford Cancer Institute.
Tampa-based Florida Orthopaedic Institute welcomed Kapil Mehrotra, MD, to its group on Nov. 5.
California voters are wrestling with the question of whether to support a ballot initiative that will grant the Oakland-based California Institute for Regenerative Medicine another $5.5 billion to continue its research-funding efforts, the Sacramento Business Journal reports.
Several big transactions have occurred in the spine device market this year.
The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education accredits 11,000 residency programs in the U.S. annually and removed credentials from eight programs this year.