Wally Krengel III, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon and chief of spine surgery at Seattle Children's Hospital.
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Los Angeles-based Orthopaedic Institute for Children now features a Starlight Fun Center, a mobile entertainment unit designed for pediatric patients.
Proliance Orthopedic Associates, a division of Proliance Surgeons, both based in Seattle, opened an orthopedic urgent care center in Tukwila, Wash.
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a previous judgment in a patent infringement case that ordered Medtronic to pay millions of dollars to a spine surgeon, according to Bloomberg Law.
Asterias Biotherapeutics conducted a clinical trial to study the effectiveness of its OPC1 cells, Seeking Alpha reports. The company released its one-year results.
Healthcare technology solutions provider Nextech Systems purchased SRS Health Software.
Littleton (N.H.) Regional Healthcare plans to launch and expand new programs in 2019, according to the Caledonian Record.
To better meet its patients' needs, Cleveland Clinic opened its first Ortho Express Care in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research assembled a task force to study the relative efficacy and safety of the most commonly used procedures to treat osteoporotic spinal fractures: vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty.
Two spine surgeons weigh in on spinal fusion surgery trends.