Spine

Here are nine spine and neurosurgeons who joined new practices in July.

Magnetic nanoparticles may be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs to difficult-to-reach spinal cord tumors, according to a proof-of-concept study in an animal model published in Scientific Reports.

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care welcomed Demetrius Lopes, MD, to the Advocate Brain & Spine Institute, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Ron El-Hawary, MD, performed adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery using the ApiFix procedure at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Canada.

Board-certified neurosurgeon Roland Torres, MD, joined the University of Miami Health System.

Here are the top 10 most-read articles on Becker's Spine Review between July 23 and July 27.

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Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital welcomed Timothy Miller Jr., MD, to its Marcus Neuroscience Institute, according to the Boca Raton Tribune.

Four spine surgeons discuss the future of spinal instrumentation and what excites them most.

As the trial against Dallas-based Forest Park Medical Center approaches, the hospital's co-founder and manager Alan Beauchamp agreed to plead guilty to bribing physicians to perform high volume and lucrative surgeries, according to The Dallas Morning News.