James Andrews, MD, orthopedic surgeon with Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., has performed knee surgery on Minnesota Timberwolves forward Chase Budinger, according to a Pioneer Press report.
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Researchers have calculated the mortality rate for spine surgery patients at 1.8 deaths per 1,000 patients, according to a study published in Spine.
Tornier has appointed David H. Mowry as interim president and CEO, effective immediately.
Stephen Hochschuler, MD, met Ralph Rashbaum, MD, while they were both stationed at the Air Force base in Wichita Falls, Texas, before they were even specializing in orthopedics, let alone leading one of the preeminent spine groups in the country.…
The North American Spine Society will be providing various grants for research funding in 2013.
More military veterans are now reporting back pain than in the past, among both front-line troops as well as other deployed personnel, according to a report published in the Journal Sentinel.
California Pain, based in Freemont and Pleasanton, has partnered with Boost Medical, which will now oversee various aspects of the practice's business management.
Monroe Capital has launched a new healthcare finance company to assist lower middle-market healthcare companies in meeting their liquidity needs to fund working capital, growth initiatives, expansion and refinancing existing debt.
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers. He is also a clinical professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine…
Orthopedic device makers are focusing more on the biological differences in patients and producing more anatomically correct options than in the past. However, ConforMIS has been refining its patient-specific process for partial and total knee replacements where individual cutting guides,…