Healthgrades ranked Visalia, Calif.-based Kaweah Delta Health Care District among the top hospitals for spine surgery, according to Visalia Times-Delta.
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The Joint Commission is offering a new Advanced Certification for Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement for Joint Commission-accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
Biloxi, Miss.-based Bienville Orthopedic Specialist's physician owners are building a new $10 million medical complex to attract patients from around the country, according to Sun Herald.
Michael Ravitch, MD, a retired orthopedic surgeon, died on Jan. 12, 2016, at the age of 74, according to the Boulder City Review.
Abraham Verghese, MD, senior associate chair of the department of internal medicine at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, discussed the provider-patient relationship with American Medical Association President Steven J. Stack, MD.
Monkey see, monkey do — Dr. Sergio Canavero claims he performed successful head transplant on monkey
Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero, MD, reported he successfully completed a head transplant on a monkey at Harbin Medical University in China, according to Independent.
Ali A. Baaj, MD, Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, Juan S. Uribe, MD, Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, and Mark S. Greenberg, MD, updated the "Handbook of Spine Surgery, Second Edition."
Paris, France-based EOS imaging, a leader in two-dimensional and three-dimensional orthopedic medical imaging, formed a new partnership with Montreal-based Spinologics.
Korsh Jafarina, MD, joined the UT Physicians group and the Memorial City Ironman Sports Medicine Institute in Texas.
Indianapolis Monthly magazine published the "Top Doctors 2015" in the Indianapolis area, which Castle Connolly Medical organized. The magazine published the list in its November 2015 edition, according to OrhtoIndy.