Spine

Here are 12 statistics on orthopedic physician patient visits based on Medscape's Orthopedist Compensation Report: 2013.

“The sky is not falling,” said Bill Munley, vice president of Orthopedics and Professional Services, at a session during Becker’s Hospital Review 4th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 9. Throughout a session,  panelists including Mr. Munley, Jeff Leland, CEO…

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The Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Ga., has joined a clinical trial examining the efficacy of facet joint replacement as a treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis, according to a report by The Creative Coast.

Keith Black, MD, will present data on a new non-invasive procedure for the detection of Alzheimer's disease to the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, which will be held May 10 in Washington, D.C.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, May 9, 2013.

Vincent Wang, MD, an expert in complex spine surgery and neurocritcal care, has joined Texas Spine & Neurosurgery Center in Sugar Land.

On May 7, Behrooz Akbarnia, MD, led a team of surgeons at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in performing two pediatric surgeries with Ellipse Technologies' MAGnetic Expansion Control System.

The Department of Defense has awarded the University of California, San Diego and Vital Imaging a second grant to continue a research project examining how body armor and assault packs carried by the U.S. Marines affect the spine.

A multicenter retrospective review of pediatric patients who underwent spinal instrumentation to correct scoliosis published in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery examined the surgical site infection rate for different etiologies.