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New York Knicks team physician Answorth Allen, MD, performed arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum on guard Toney Douglas' arm.
DiFUSION Technologies, based in Austin, Texas, signed a multiyear lease with Texas Life-sciences Collaboration Center in downtown Austin, according to a Community Impact news report.
Interventional Spine, an Irvine, Calif.-based spine device company, announced the first use of its PerX360, a percutaneous transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion system, according to a company news release.
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Three orthopedic surgeons recently resigned from the Racine, Wis.-based All Saints orthopedic department this past week, joining two other orthopedic physicians who left within the past year, according to a report from The Journal Times.