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San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., announced the establishment of a neuro-spine program, headquartered at San Juan Health Partners Neurosciences in Farmington.

Macon, Ga.-based The Nexus Medical Group opened The Nexus Pain Center of Albany (Ga.), according to an Albany Herald report.

Disc replacement surgeries may be more effective in the short term than spinal fusion for treating degenerative disc disease, according to a recent study in the ANZ Journal of Surgery.

Engineers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla have designed a bioactive glass implant that can grow new bone, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based Chippewa Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Clinic has opened a new location in Altoona, Wis., according to a Leader Telegram report.

This week, Craig Westin, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician of Illinois Bone & Joint Institute in Chicago, is at Champs Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., to examine the skaters of the U.S. Figure Skating team.

David Roye, MD, St. Giles Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia University, Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Director of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York and Executive Medical Director of the Columbia…

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013.

Kenneth Renkens, MD, a spine surgeon at Indiana Spine Group, was recently a principal investigator for the FINISH-3 Phase III clinical trial of Fibrocaps, a dry powder topical formulation of fibrinogen and thrombin to aid homeostasis during surgery.

The societal savings from knee arthroplasty performed in the United States in 2009 was approximately $12 billion, according to an article published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.