Spinal Simplicity's Minuteman device is available for sale in the United States, according to a Kansas City Business Journal.
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Lima USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lima Corporate, announced that the first total knee arthroplasty cases featuring Lima's Physica knee system in the United States were performed in November.
Isaac Karikari, MD, of Duke Medicine in Raleigh, N.C., performed scoliosis surgery with new software, according to WRAL.com.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine compared the results of total knee replacement to a non-surgical approach for osteoarthritis.
Rodney Plaster, MD, and Sarat Kunapuli, MD, of Eastern Oklahoma Orthopedic Center in Tulsa, Okla., traveled to El Salvador to perform knee and hip replacements, according to Tulsa World.
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia appointed Ashlee Halbritter the director of campus health, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The Houston Health Department chose ClientTrack, a provider of health and human services cloud-based case management solutions, to manage its electronic case management for its Texas 1115 Medicaid Waiver programs.
The topic of physician-owned distributorships is a hot one that is highly debated, according to MedPage Today.
Julie A. Long, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon in Pleasanton, Calif.
Minn., Gov. Mark Dayton will undergo spine surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, N.Y.