Spine

Here are two neurosurgeons who received honors or recognition in August.

Spine surgeons from the department of orthopedics at Emory University School of Medicine recently published a textbook on their approaches to spinal disorders.

A new partnership between two professional specialty organizations will yield a spine registry that will allow all spine surgeons in North America to collect and share quality data.

Spine surgeon Anuj Patel, MD, joined OrthoAtlanta, which has 39 physicians providing musculoskeletal care across 14 offices.

Here are nine spine and neurosurgeons making the news this week.

Richard Lee, MD, of Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, Calif., performed a cervical spine revision surgery to fix a C1 ring that flipped horizontally to rest on a patient's C2 vertebrae, reports Fox News.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Cancer Institute physicians performed a spinal laser interstitial thermal therapy procedure, which destroys cancer cells close to the spine without open surgery.

Anthony Leone, MD, pleaded guilty to writing himself illegal prescriptions for pain medication, according to The Buffalo News.

Four spine and neurosurgeons share their thoughts on how the healthcare industry is covered in the media.

A subcommittee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons donated $300,000 to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Foundation.