Spine

Geron recently presented data from the ongoing Phase 1 of the clinical trial for its human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for patients with spinal cord injury, according to a company news release.

Brian E. Capaldi, DC, has joined Laser Spine Institute in Philadelphia as a chiropractic physician on staff to serve as a consultant and speak at seminars, according to a company news release.

Preoperative pulmonary function tests are clinically impaired in 19 percent of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients, and correlate with main thoracic and sagittal plane deformity, according to a study published in Spine.

Neel Anand, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles). Dr. Anand is the director of orthopedic spine surgery at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, where he also researches minimally invasive surgical techniques for spinal disorders and traumas. During his career, he has been…

Spine surgeon Mitchell Garden, MD, of New Milford Hospital in Danbury, Conn., performed the state's first sacroiliac joint fixation surgery using the iFuse implant system, according to a hospital report.

The complications associated with posterior surgery C2 screw placement may be lower than previously thought, as new developments allow for several choices in posterior C2 fixation, according to a study published in Spine.

Keith Eugene Girton, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, has joined Laser Spine Institute in Philadelphia, according to a company news release.

Nitin Khanna, MD, and Dwight Tyndall, MD, are two spine surgeons with Spine Care Specialists in Munster, Ind., who say working together on surgeries is more efficient, according to a Munster Community report.

Gowriharan "Dr. Ty" Thaiyananthan, MD, neurosurgeon and co-medical director of the Basic Spine Brain & Spine Institute of California discusses five things to know about the use of stem cells in spine surgery.

Robert Watkins Jr., MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and co-director of Marina Spine Center at Marina Del Rey Hospital in Marina Del Rey, Calif., who has used navigation systems for computer-guided spine surgery for six years, discusses three common misconceptions about…