Spine

A new study published in Spine questions whether surgeons are overestimating the association between obesity and perioperative adverse outcomes due to ICD coding classifications.

Manish Shah, MD, is pediatric neurosurgeon at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston. Dr. Shah makes annual trips to Haiti to perform endoscopic surgery on children with hydrocephalus, according to The Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus investigated the impact of chronic opioid therapy on complications following spinal fusion surgery.

The Scoliosis Research Society collaborated with the International Spine Study Group Foundation and several spine industry leaders to complete the Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis II study.

Researchers investigated factors related to rod slippage with magnetically controlled growing rods, in a new study published in Spine.

Republican-backed candidate Jim Maxwell, MD, began his campaign to replace late Representative Louise Slaughter, D, in Congress, according to WHEC.

Following a preliminary hearing, a judge ruled Toronto, Canada-based neurosurgeon Mohammed Shamji, MD, PhD, will stand trial for the first-degree murder of his wife Elana Fric-Shamji, MD, The Toronto Star reports.

Ramsin Benyamin, MD, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means on behalf of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. In the testimony, ASIPP proposed a three-tiered approach to curb opioid abuse and deaths while maintaining appropriate…

Retired orthopedic spine surgeon and former circus performer Neil Kahanovitz, MD, led a group of investors that bought the New York City-based Big Apple Circus, The Washington Post reports.

A lawsuit filed March 15, 2018 in Anchorage Superior Court alleges that neurosurgeon Louis Kralick, MD, photographed the genitalia of a patient undergoing spine surgery at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. Dr. Kralick signed a letter of apology, KTVA…