The Joint Commission announced it has changed the surgical site infection surveillance requirement for surgical procedures with an implant to align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's revised requirement.
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Eugene Carragee, MD, editor-in-chief of The Spine Journal of the North American Spine Society, has responded to the findings from the Yale University Open Data Access Project published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Collegeville, Pa.-based Synergy Biomedical received FDA clearance for its BioSphere Putty for bone grafts.
Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Vertos Medical has closed a $23 million round of Series E financing to fund the U.S. commercial expansion and European launch of its mild procedure for lumbar spinal stenosis.
New England Baptist Hospital in Boston announced that it has named Dana E. Zalkind, MD, as the medical director of its new Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program.
Jupiter, Fla.-based Palm Beach Orthopaedic Institute announced that Andrew Seltzer, DO, an orthopedic surgeon at the institute, has returned from a medical mission trip to Honduras.
Hendersonville, N.C.-based Park Ridge Health announced that Jim Phelps, MD, has joined the team of physicians at Asheville, N.C.-based Southeastern Sports Medicine.
Here are six statistics on the amount of hours orthopedists spend on administrative activities and paperwork each week, according to the Medscape Orthopedist Compensation Report: 2013.
Approximately a third of orthopedic surgeons report that their practice have hired more coding specialists, physical therapists, hospitalists and nurse practitioners over the last year, according to "The Third Annual Role of the Orthopaedic Surgeon Study 2013," released by The…
A study published in the May 15 issue of Spine indicates that complication rates, costs, and hospitalization lengths are longer for African-American patients when compared to Caucasian patients, both who had undergone lumbar spinal stenosis.