Spine

Here are 20 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who are leaders at large academic medical centers.

Centegra Health System will soon open a Back and Spine Center in the Centegra Health Center in Huntley, Ill., according to a report in The Northwest Herald. Situated inside Centegra’s Immediate Care floor, the back and spine center, set to…

The University of Michigan Health System announced it will bulk up its hospital capacity and create hospital for diseases of the nervous system, which will include spinal treatment.

Robert Watkins, MD, a spine surgeon and co-director of the Marina Spine Clinic in Marina del Rey, Calif., performed spine surgery on Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

A magnetically controlled growing rod inserted along the spine has been found to correct scoliosis in several children patients in Hong Kong, according to a Med Page Today report.

Approximately 90 percent of neurosurgeons responding to an American Association of Neurological Surgeons survey reported being hospital-based surgeons, with 89 percent being full-time employees. Forty percent were single-specialty hospital based groups and most were in four-person practices. The survey was…

Richard Kube, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, formed Prairie Spine & Pain Institute in Peoria, Ill., three years ago with the goal of becoming a comprehensive integrated care spine center. This month, he got one step closer to his goal…

Six spine surgeons discuss how surgeons just coming out of fellowships can build a successful and fruitful spine practice.

A team of researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., used electrode implanted in the paralyzed hands of monkeys to get them to pick up a ball, according to MSN News.

Results from a new study conducted by neurological and orthopedic surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center suggests there may be problems with how hospital readmissions rates are reported.