Five U.S. senators have asked the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to launch a probe into physician-owned distributorships to determine their legality, according to a Wall Street Journal report. PODs, which exist in at least…
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Here are five points about orthopedic surgeon patient visits based on statistics from the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2011.
A bill that passed the Senate and is now being debated in the House would hamper the ability of physicians and other small operations in obtaining patents for medical devices, according to Paul Ryan, CEO of Acacia Research, a Newport…
Brian E. Capaldi, DC, has joined Laser Spine Institute in Philadelphia as a chiropractic physician on staff to serve as a consultant and speak at seminars, according to a company news release.
Amedica/US Spine, A Salt Lake City-based spinal device company, recently submitted a design dossier to the British Standards Institution requesting permission to distribute its total hip ceramic femoral head technology in Europe, according to a company news release.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recently sponsored a symposium on comparative effectiveness research in Washington, D.C., according to an AAOS Now news report.
Here are five new studies impacting sports medicine. The studies were published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, unless otherwise noted.
Zimmer Holdings introduced the Maxera Cup, a hip ceramic-on-ceramic implant designed for younger and active patients, according to a company news release.
Preoperative pulmonary function tests are clinically impaired in 19 percent of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients, and correlate with main thoracic and sagittal plane deformity, according to a study published in Spine.
The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons has awarded Darryl D'Lima, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and researcher at Scripps Clinic, with the Nicolas Andry Award for his work with the electronic knee prosthesis, according to a Scripps news release.