Spine

On April 6, a Union County, N.J., jury awarded a plaintiff $4.5 million over a botched spine surgery. The plaintiff will recover $2.25 million because of a high-low agreement the lawyers entered after closing arguments, the New Jersey Law Journal…

Here are four spine and neurosurgeons making headlines.

Researchers discovered patients with intractable spine or limb pain have less pain when treated with spinal cord stimulation compared to medication, according to Medscape.

Khalid Kurtom, MD, is a neurosurgeon at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton and a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine. He recently spoke with Becker's Spine Review about…

With a shift toward value-based models, physicians are focused on patient factors that can influence preoperative and postoperative adverse events.

Five spine surgeons discuss the key aspects of successful professional mentoring.

Here are the top 10 spine stories from April.

Jocelyn Idema, DO, implanted a Spectra WaveWriter Spinal Cord Stimulator system in a military veteran to relieve his chronic pain.

San Jose, Calif.-based Allied Pain & Spine Institute opened a new outpatient facility in San Jose, the Trinity Surgery Center.

A new study published in Spine examines how Medicare's Bundled Payment for Care Improvement program for lumbar spinal fusion has affected outcomes.