A recent study published in Health Affairs found that the cost of medical malpractice in United States totals $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4 percent of annual healthcare spending, and includes $45.6 billion in costs related to defensive medicine, according to…
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After a long career in orthopedic surgery, which includes co-founding the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, pioneering the Tommy John surgery for major league pitchers with damaged UCLs and training several sports medicine physicians, Frank W. Jobe, MD, is…
Gowriharan "Dr. Ty" Thaiyananthan, MD, a neurosurgeon, researcher and the co-medical director for the Southern California Center for Neuroscience and Spine (SCCNS) at Chapman Medical Center in Orange, Calif., discusses three cutting-edge projects currently in the works at SCCNS.
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.
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.