Spine

Suguna Pappu, MD, PhD, joined Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine.

The free online calculator SpineSage can assist in preoperative planning and counseling for spine surgery patients, according to a study in European Spine Journal.

Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, founder of the Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles, discusses how his hobbies help him improve his practice.

An internal audit at LSU Health Shreveport (La.) focused on the former chairman of the neurosurgery department, accused of billing for procedures he did not perform; instead, the audit found he was the "supervising physician" while residents performed the procedures,…

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.