Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years, but reception for the procedure by the Western medical community has been lukewarm at best. Christian Nix, who is opening an acupuncture clinic in Chicago's Mercy Hospital in Feb. 2012, is trying…
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Peter Arduini, formerly the president of medication delivery for Baxter Healthcare, has been named the CEO of Integra LifeSciences, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
Hypermobile elite-level professional soccer players have increased incidence of injury among athletes, according to a report in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Life survival decline for patients undergoing subsequent spine surgery after surgical correction for neuropathic spinal deformity often begins around four years postoperatively and is associated with one or more perioperative complications, according to a report published in Spine.
InVivo Therapeutics co-founder Robert S. Langer, ScD, was recently awarded the 2011 annual Innovation Award in Bioscience from The Economist, according to a company news release.
A new study presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand annual meeting discusses the changing patterns in childhood fractures, showing that most adolescent acute non-displaced fractures are healing with cast mobilization, according to an AAOS Now report.
John H. Judd, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, recently joined Bluff Sports medicine in Poplar Bluff, Mo., according to a report from Southeast Missourian.
Lemak Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, a sports medicine practice in Birmingham, Ala., recently held a Medical Soccer Symposium, according to a report from The North Jefferson News.
Shelton, Conn.-based spine device company Spine Wave has entered into an agreement with MB Innovations to develop future products, according to a Spine Wave news release.