Spine

Praveen Kadimcherla, MD, of Orange, N.J.-based Atlantic Spine Center, outlines the most important aspects of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.

With an influx of facilities offering stem cell treatments and avoiding heavy regulations, the FDA issued draft guidelines clarifying that stem cells used in most clinics are drugs and require a meticulous approval process, according to STAT News.

The Medical Center of Plano (Texas) opened its new brain and spine hospital to patients, according to a D Healthcare Daily report.

Back Pain Centers of America appointed Erika Rosenthal as vice president, strategy and healthcare partnerships.

Oxford University Press is partnering with the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Spine Intervention Society and the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists to publish Pain Medicine.

Here are 13 spine surgeons who recently received awards or promotions.

A new study published in the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques examines the factors affecting anterior cervical discectomy and fusion complications and length of stay.

Doug Coatsworth, PhD, of Fort Collins-based Colorado State University, and Alissa Wicklund, PhD, of Fort Collins-based Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies, will conduct a concussion study. National Collegiate Athletic Association and the U.S. Department of Defense are funding…

Spine published the FDA Investigational Device Exemption clinical trial results for Cerapedics' i-FACTOR Peptide Enhanced Bone Graft in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures, according to News-Medical.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke gave Cambridge, Mass.-based BioAxone BioSciences a grant for the development of its molecule kinase inhibitor, BA-1049.