Spine

Brett Reichwage, MD, has joined The Andrews Institute, based in Gulf Breeze, Fla., and the Baptist Medical Group.

Cleveland-based MetroHealth System is opening a comprehensive spine center, according to a WEWS report.

Here are 21 spine surgeons who are involved in stem cell research for spinal treatment.

Robert T. Greenfield, MD, a spine surgeon with Resurgens Orthopaedics in Atlanta, discusses the benefits and challenges of minimal access spine surgery, and its natural progression to become the standard of care in the future.

Amir Makoui, MD, a neurosurgeon at The Center of Excellence for Spine and Orthopedic Surgery at Mission Community Hospital in San Fernando, Calif., has performed a minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion procedure, one of the first in the San Fernando…

Thomas Schuler, MD, founder of the Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, recently used Mazor Robotics' Renaissance robotic guidance products to perform a minimally invasive procedure during a thoracic fusion at HCA Reston (Va.) Hospital Center. Dr. Schuler and colleague from…

Neurosurgeon Thomas L. Ellis, MD, died June 30 at Duke University Medical Center at the age of 50, according to a Palm Beach Daily News report.  

At the end of June, the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which aims to reform the healthcare system in America. The Court upheld ACA but struck down the provision…

Five spine surgeons discuss the individual mandate's impact on spine practices.

The neurosurgery program at Children's Hospital Central California has received $200,000 in total donations from a couple in Virginia who credit the medical director of neurosurgery at the hospital, Gary Magram, MD, with saving their daughter's life, according to a…