Hospital care takes up the largest portion of national healthcare expenditures in the United States, and care from physicians and other professionals sits solidly in second, according to statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society has announced 2012 research grant recipients, according to an AAOS Now report.
Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence in Upper Arlington selected eClinicalWorks as its electronic health record for its 59 providers.
Orthopedic surgeons are among the specialized physicians who suffered the largest compensation decline from 2010 to 2011, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results.
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced that they have appointed Jeffrey M. Anderson, MD, as the new independent program administrator of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Misonix, a surgical device company, has entered into a new, three-year, exclusive distribution agreement with SIAD Healthcare in Milano, Italy.
VG Innovations, a company focused on spinal fixation device design and development, has named John Kippenberger as vice president of sales.
The Federal Trade Commission has approved Johnson & Johnson's $21.3 billion acquisition of Synthes but with one stipulation, according to a Washington Post report.