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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
Here are three trends for orthopedics in ambulatory surgery centers, including specific orthopedic and spine procedures now routinely performed in an ASC, from Michael R. Redler, MD, an orthopedic surgeon on staff at the Surgery Center of Fairfield County in…
CareCloud, a Miami, Fla.-based healthcare software company, has entered into a partnership with OrthoSensor, a developer of intelligent orthopedic devices, to provide evidence-based data to physicians and hospitals, according to a CloudCare news release.