Here are five hospitals that have recently expanded orthopedics programs or added orthopedic surgeons.
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Wright Medical Group, based in Memphis, Tenn., will acquire Biotech International for $75 million, according to a Memphis Business Journal report.
Integra LifeSciences has launched its Integra Proximal Humeral Fracture Plate System in the U.S.
In a Physicians Practice article, Michael Sappington, CEO of gloStream, a performance management services firm, discusses six new roles that need to be created at medical practices to deal with the changes taking place in the industry.
Marlton, N.J.-based Advocare, an independent physician group, announced that Skyview Orthopedics has joined them to create Advocare Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center, according to a report by The Sparta Independent.
An incentive program to reduce the number of unnecessary diagnostic laboratory tests performed in neurosurgical patients at University of California San Francisco resulted in a 47 percent reduction in the number of targeted tests in a year, according to study…
Billings, Mont.-based St. Vincent Healthcare has opened its $8.4 million Orthopedic and Spine Center of Excellence, according to a KULR8 News report.
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons announced Clayton M. Christiansen, author and professor at Harvard Business School, will be the 2014 Cushing Orator at the annual meeting.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Prospira PainCare announced that two of its pain management physicians — Adam Sackstein, MD, and Youssef Josephson, DO — have joined the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia.
The government reopened last night after President Barack Obama signed a bill to end the shutdown and avoid debt default, according to a Medscape report.