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NuVasive reported revenue of $151.7 million during the first quarter of 2012, a 21.9 percent increase over the same period last year.

A recent study in The Spine Journal finds that patients with reportedly higher levels of depression before operation were less likely than patients with lower levels to improve after revision surgery for adjacent segment disease (ASD), pesudoarthrosis and recurrent stenosis.

There are several steps spine surgeons must take when migrating their cases from the inpatient setting to an outpatient surgery center. Beyond the appropriate training, surgeons must consider how their practice will change as a result of the transition and…

Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, neurosurgeon and CEO of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., believes that outpatient surgery centers and spine specialty hospitals are the future of elective spine surgery. He moved out of his…

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