Spine

A new study published in Spine examines the health-related quality of life measures for patients with primary spine tumors.

The FDA approved Dartmouth Center for Surgical Innovation's research to test a new fluorescent agent in neurosurgical procedures, according to The Dartmouth. The center is a part of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, located in Lebanon, N.H.

Aurora Spine Corp. will soon present its Screwless Procedure technology and highlight its latest fusion technologies including its ZIP MIS Interspinous system.

Here two spine surgeons discuss the upcoming election and how its outcome will affect the spine surgeons.

Jeffrey C. Wang, MD, co-director of the USC Spine Center at Keck Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, will present findings from the study, "Reoperation Rates Following Single-Level Lumbar Discectomy," at the North American Spine Society annual meeting in Boston…

A new study published in Spinal Deformity examines the health-related quality of life in patients with early onset scoliosis. The study authors compared patients who were treated with traditional growing rods to those who were treated with magnetically-controlled growing rods.

At the Congress of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting in San Diego, Russell Lonser, MD, delivered the presidential address with an emphasis on technology and big data. The meeting occurred Sept. 24 to Sept. 28.

A new Spine study analyzed changes in astronauts' lumbar paraspinal muscle cross-sectional area and intervertebral disc height when on an International Space Station mission for six months. Alan R. Hargens, PhD, of UC San Diego School of Medicine in Sacramento,…

A new study published in Spinal Deformity examines surgery for adult spinal deformity to find the clinical benefit threshold. 

Orthopedic spine surgeon Ahmed Saleh, MD, joined Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.