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Camille Farhat, president and CEO of RTI Surgical, discusses the key technology trends in spine today and where his company is headed in the future.

Five years after former orthopedic surgeon Spyros Panos pled guilty to making millions in a healthcare fraud scheme and surrendered his medical license in 2013, he was arrested again for alleged fraudulent behavior, according to Bloomberg. 

Total knee replacement (TKR) surgery typically has a success rate of 80 to 90 percent in eliminating pain caused by knee osteoarthritis. So why do some people who are qualified to have TKR put off having the surgery?

Martin H. Krag, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon at the University of Vermont Medical Center in South Burlington.

Bone Solutions Inc. announced first 250 cases of its magnesium-based bone void filler OsteoCrete were implanted.

Michael M. Zilles, MD, joined Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based MidHudson Regional Hospital.

SI-BONE's 3D-printed triangular titanium implants had low adverse event rates similar to the prior machined version of the device, according to an article in Medical Devices: Evidence and Research.

The FDA awarded $2.6 million in grants for 3D bioprinting and biomanufacturing research, 3D Printing Industry reports.

Medacta International appointed Francesco Siccardi as CEO, effective Nov. 1.

Vertos Medical enrolled the first patient into a nationwide study of its mild procedure, a minimally invasive lumbar spinal stenosis treatment.