The American College of Sports Medicine, along with five other professional organizations, released a statement on the necessity of the team physician to providing treatment for athletes.
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The Wall Street Journal reported today about federal and state investigations into an extensive network of physician-owned distributors. See Surgeons Eyed Over Deals with Medical Device Makers, WSJ July 26, 2013.
Ziya Gokaslan, MD, is the neurosurgical spine center and vice-chairman of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is a member of Cervical Spine Research Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology and America Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has…
Sixty-six percent of physicians believe that physicians and hospitals will become more integrated in the next one to three years, according to Deloitte's 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
Getting funding for conducting studies on surgeries so as to gather evidence regarding medical treatments is a challenge, according to a report by The Inquirer.
Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, is planning a $321 million brain and spine center, according to a report by The Columbus Dispatch.
Hyun Bae, MD, co-director of the spine fellowship program at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles, gives eight predictions on how spine surgeons will interact with device companies and impact innovation in the future.
Carlsbad, Calif.-based Aurora Spine received European CE Mark for its ZIP MIS Interspinous Fusion System.
SpineGuard, based in Paris and San Francisco, reported its revenue up 27 percent in the first half of the year over the same period last year.
A new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings has determined that 146 common medical interventions are equivalent to doing nothing.