Tornier, a medical device company focused on the development of orthopedic products, has introduced its porous-coated Affiniti Stem for shoulder joint replacement surgery, according to a company news release.
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ChartLogic, a national provider of electronic health records, has announced it has completed a survey of orthopedic practices about meaningful use and found the top two biggest challenges in meeting the government requirements was distributing clinical summaries to patients and…
Cedar Park (Texas) Surgery Center will start offering outpatient spine surgery through a new alliance formed with Austin (Texas) Neurosurgical Institute and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery of Austin, according to a news release.
The Orthopaedic Implant Company, a developer, manufacture and distributer of orthopedic implants, has entered the medical device market behind a pledge from the company's president to save more than a billion dollars in healthcare costs by 2015, according to a…
Vernon Williams, MD, neurologist and medical director of Kerlan-Jobe Center for Sports Neurology in Los Angeles, discusses five key trends in spine pain management.
Brett Levine, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Chicago's Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush with a special interest in complex knee and hip surgery, discusses the biggest reasons for concern and excitement in orthopedics today.
The modified carpal stretch test is useful for ruling out grade-II or IV scapholunate interosseous ligament tears associated with intra-articular distal radial fractures, but it shouldn't be used to confirm the existence of a tear, according to a study published…
Robert Anderson, MD, founding member of the Foot & Ankle Institute at OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, N.C., will perform surgery on Toronto Raptors forward Amir Johnson's left ankle, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.
Wael K. Barsoum, MD, vice chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at Cleveland Clinic, recently discussed his findings from comparative research of the biomechanical differences between total hip arthroplasty and resurfacing, according to a story published in AAOS Now.
The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City recently installed two new low-dose CT scanners to capture high-quality images with lower radiation in a shorter amount of time, according to a hospital news release.