Spine

Spine/RX, a new spine surgery practice, opened in Hoboken, N.J.

After deliberating for an hour and twenty minutes, a jury found Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare was not negligent in hiring neurosurgeon Denise Crute, MD, according to the Rockford Register Star.

Stephen Hochschuler, MD, is a founding physician of Texas Back Institute in Plano.

Johnathan Krystal, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon and clinical instructor of orthopedics at New York-based Montefiore Health System. He joined the hospital's orthopedic surgery department in August 2018 and specializes in spine treatment.

Scott Blumenthal, MD, is a spine surgeon with Texas Back Institute in Plano.

Compared with bilateral pedicle screw fixation, unilateral pedicle screw fixation significantly reduced total blood loss and operation time for lumbar degenerative disease surgeries, according to a study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research.

Here are the top 10 most-read articles on Becker's Spine Review from Dec. 3-7.

St. Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., welcomed Roy Hwang, MD, according to The Morning Call.

Neurosurgeon Steven Beer, MD, was among the first surgeons in the U.S. to perform spinal surgery using the OsseoScrew spinal fixation system, according to ShortGo.

Kern Singh, MD, is co-director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush and a partner at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, both in Chicago. He is an internationally known expert in minimally invasive spine surgery and has earned recognition for…