Stephen Burkhart, MD, of The San Antonio Orthopaedic Group, will deliver the Kessel Lecture at this year's International Congress on Shoulder and Elbow Surgery in Edinburgh, Scotland, according to a company news release.
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Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) — $7.0 billion in revenues. Products from Stryker's Orthopaedic Implants division include artificial joints, spinal rods and screws, bone cement, artificial vertebral discs and OP-1, a biological product to grow bone. In April, the company manufactured…
The AHA is complaining to federal regulators about overzealous enforcement of the False Claims Act in cases involving admissions for a spinal procedure, according to a report by AHA News Now.
The Laser Spine Institute has expanded its September seminar tour to include stops in Billings, Mont., and Lexington, Ky., according to a practice news release.
Hun Bay, MD, a spine surgeon with St. John's University in Queens, N.Y., recently implanted one of 35 Coflex springs into a patient's spine to relieve pressure from the patient's spine and nerves, according to a local WPTV news report.
Eden Spine, a medical device company focused on spinal technologies, received a U.S. patent for the PERFX-2, a posterior dynamic stabilization system, according to a company news release.
Meniscal repair for radial tears of the midbody of the lateral meniscus can be an alternative treatment to partial meniscectomy, according to an article published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Robert Burger, MD, and Tim Kremcheck, MD, of Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Cincinnati have been honored as outstanding team physicians for high school athletics by the State of Ohio Medical Association and Ohio High School Athletic Association, according…
Choll Kim, MD, PhD, of the Spine Institute of San Diego, is a nationally known expert on computer-assisted minimally invasive spine surgery. He shares his expertise with fellow spine surgeons as director of the education lab in the minimally invasive…
The North American Spine Society released a new guideline for cervical radiculopathy from degenerative disorders in order to assist physicians in diagnosing and treating patients with degenerative disorders, according to an NASS news release.