A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery examines the coagulation profile for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients who have posterior spinal fusions.
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Brad Prybis, MD, of Carrollton (Ga.) Orthopaedic Clinic, performed the first anterior cervical fusion using Meditech's CURE Anterior Cervical Plate.
Thomas B. Scully, MD, of Northwest NeuroSpecialists in Tucson, Ariz., became the first surgeon to implant Life Spine's PRO-LINK Ti Stand-Alone Cervical Spacer System.
Alan Van Norman, MD, will begin seeing patients once a month at Sanford Health West Dickinson (N.D.) Clinic, on Nov. 8.
Philadelphia-based National Disease Research Interchange is hosting a symposium for leaders in brain injury, neurological disease and pain on Nov. 18.
In September, there was a stark decrease in compromised health records, with that figure dropping from 8.8 million records breached in August to 250,000 breached records last month, according to SC Magazine.
Earlier this week, Pfizer said it will sell a biosimilar version of Johnson & Johnson's Remicade, a rheumatoid arthritis treatment, causing investors to worry about the competition's impact on Johnson & Johnson's sales, according to STAT.