Minneapolis-based Medtronic announced its net earnings in the United States in the second quarter of fiscal year 2014 increased by 39 percent, from $646 million in the same quarter in 2012 to $902 million in 2013.
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Knoxville, Tenn.-based ChoiceSpine announced the launch of TYPHOON Facet Screw Fixation System.
Patients with mild, moderate and severe cervical spondylotic myelopathy showed improvement in functional, disability-related and quality-of-life outcomes one year after undergoing surgical decompression surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers announced the addition of Mir H. Ali, MD, to its medical staff.
Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., announced the addition of Lukas Nystrom, MD, to its medical staff, according to a Chicago Tribune article.
Orlando (Fla.) Health will continue serving as the Orlando City Soccer Club's primary sponsor after the minor league team's move to Major League Soccer, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
Chetan K. Patel, MD, moderated a symposium about robotics and navigation in the spine surgeon's operating room at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.
At the Becker's Annual CEO Strategy Roundtable, held Nov. 14 in Chicago, a panel of healthcare experts discussed the pilot accountable care organization program.
According to a five-year jobs projection report from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists, 26 of the 50 jobs projected to grow the fastest from 2013 to 2017 are in the healthcare industry.
Healthcare prices and expenditures continued to grow at a slow pace in September, according to the Altarum Institute.