Daniel Yoshor, MD, has been named chair of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
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RTI Surgical hosted a surgeon education symposium focused on the use of biologic implants in spine surgery in New York.
Pain physician Diva Nagula, MD, joined the ownership group for the Arena Football League's Jacksonville Sharks.
VertiFlex announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Devices Advisory Panel meeting on Feb. 20, 2015 to discuss and vote on its premarket approval application for the Superion Interspinous Spacer System.
The Spine Journal published a report recently comparing the results from the SPORT lumbar disc herniation cohort with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database to identify different trends in disc herniation treatment.
Autocam Medical Devices completed the cash transaction acquisition of Southeastern Technology, according to a Grand Rapids Business Journal report.
Despite a challenging healthcare atmosphere, the demand for new medical innovation is growing and the medical device market is expected to grow significantly over the next three years, according to a Manufacturing Group report.
The national annual mean wage for registered nurses was $68,910 as of May 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Medical malpractice can have a huge negative impact on a surgeon's practice.
Most spine surgeons would say a successful surgery looks like this: lower postoperative pain scores, increased functional scores and images show a solid fusion; the patient isn't readmitted to the hospital and doesn't complain of any further complications.