Spine

U.S. News & World Report released its "Best Hospitals for Neurology & Neurosurgery" 2022-23 list July 26, with NYU Langone Hospitals taking the top spot.

Spinal device start-up Sure Retractors named Daniel Kosh to its board of directors, effective immediately.  

The first awake spinal fusion with Wenzel Spine's VariLift-LX interbody implant has been completed, the company said in a July 21 news release. 

The costs of spinal disc replacement can be expensive nationwide. 

Spine surgery bundled payments are more challenging to navigate than similar value-based arrangements in total joint replacement because of the wide variation of surgeries, the approaches and levels that may be operated on in any given diagnosis, as well as…

Woojin Cho, MD, a former attending orthopedic surgeon and chief of research at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, was sentenced on July 19 to nine months in prison for sexually abusing a patient who had gone to him for…

Patients who receive spinal anesthesia for hip fractures need more painkillers following procedures, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine June 14. 

Justin Cetas, MD, PhD, chair of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, died July 13 after a motorcycle collision with a tow truck, according to ABC affiliate KGUN.

The American Orthopaedic Association has named spine surgeon Alexander Ghanayem, MD, as second president-elect during its annual leadership meeting in June.

The spinal cord stimulator market is expected to reach $3.27 billion in value by 2027, according to a July 13 report from the Digital Journal.