Prescription opioid pain medications are driving an "epidemic" of unintentional overdose deaths, according to a news release by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
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A New Bern, N.C., pain management physician has pled guilty to healthcare fraud and been sentenced to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, according to a Sun Journal report. Michael K. Nunn, MD, practiced under Community Wellness Center in New Bern,…
Cone-beam CT technology can benefit spinal navigation because the X-ray emitter rotates around a fixed center and is able to take conventional images that can be reconstructed on any plane or three-dimensional images, according to an AAOS Now report by…
The intra-articular use of local anesthetics could be detrimental to human articular cartilage and chondrocytes, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
David R. Schmidt, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, has been selected as the chairman of the 2011 Valero Alamo Bowl, according to a San Antonio Business Journal report.
Stryker's President and CEO Stephen P. MacMillan recently discussed the recruitment of global employees, saying new additions to the American workforce aren't stacking up to their international counterparts, according to a Kalamazoo Gazette news report.
Tadhg O'Gara, MD, an orthopedic spine specialist with Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., has opened an office location in Lexington, N.C., according to a report from The Dispatch.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a major modification to SI-BONE's iFuse Implant System, according to a company news release.
Patients with cervical spondylotic amyotrophy should initially undergo non-surgical treatment, but surgical treatment can be successful when conservative treatment fails, according to an article published in Spine.
According to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's most recent data for 2010, wrong-site anesthesia blocks are the most common wrong-site events, followed by wrong vertebral level and wrong-site hand surgery. Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgeries continue to occur despite the…