A former nurse at Nashville, Tenn.-based Hughston Orthopedic Clinic at TriStar Centennial allegedly wrote more than 100 prescriptions for pain killers for herself in three years, according to a KREM 2 report.
The Latest
Austin, Texas-based Dell Children's Medical Center installed Medtronic's O-arm imaging system to assist in spine surgery, according to KXAN.com.
UC San Diego researchers derived spinal cord neural stem cells from human pluripotent stem cells transplanted into a rat model with spinal cord injury, according to a study in Nature Methods.
ACA Medicaid expansion may have limited effect on surgical procedure use disparities, study suggests
While the ACA Medicaid expansion has increased overall access to surgical care, it has not increased complex surgical procedure use at high volume hospitals among low-income and minority patients, according to a study in the Journal of the American College…
Shukla Medical is an orthopedic and spine implant extraction technology company.
Here are six spine and neurosurgeons making headlines:
Between 2004 and 2015, more patients chose to undergo lumbar fusion surgery for spondylolisthesis and scoliosis, according to an article in Spine.
Jae Y. Lim, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon at Vienna, Va.-based Atlantic Brain and Spine.
Rockville, Md.-based National Spine and Pain Centers shut the doors on all of its North Carolina-based offices Sept. 14 due to Hurricane Florence.
ORHub introduced spine surgeon Burak Ozgur, MD, as its newest medical advisory board member.