Spine

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a new statement noting all children and teenagers may not require scoliosis screening, Reuters reports.

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Medical Group welcomed five neurosurgeons to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. The five neurosurgeons will practice at the hospital’s Brain & Spine Institute, the Chicago Tribune reports.

A study published in The Spine Journal examines the association between tobacco smoking and lumbar spinal stenosis.

Here are seven recent stories on outpatient spine trends and news articles.

The First Annual Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Summit was held in late 2017 and featured a session on the challenges and solutions for total lumbar disc replacement implantation. Spine published a summary of the discussion.

Spine surgeon Jason Kelly, MD, joined Fargo, N.D.-based Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic.

Researchers from New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and St. Louis-based Washington University Orthopedics assessed the cost effectiveness of two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion versus cervical disc replacement after five years.

The Texas Medical Board temporarily suspsended Amarillo, Texas-based neurosurgeon Jeffrey Cone’s, MD, license Jan. 3, because of his child sexual assault arrest in December 2017, according to Amarillo Globe-News.

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Here are the 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review between Jan. 1 and Jan. 5.