Spine

NuVasive dominates the lateral spine market with Medtronic being a distant second. Kern Singh, MD, and his colleagues with Avaz Surgical are trying to level the playing field with new technology focused on quantitative imaging.

The U.S. Army awarded Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin a five-year, $6.8 million grant to study neck, spine and brain safety issues, according to Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

Researchers analyzed the characteristics of patients with herniated discs at the cervicothoracic junction, according to a The Spine Journal study.

A study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine examines the pedicle subtraction osteotomy technique for spinal deformity, a mini-open approach. 

A new study published in Spinal Deformity examines whether the type of metal instrumentation used in pediatric scoliosis correction affects surgical site infection.

European Spine Journal published six-month results from the iFuse Implant System Minimally Invasive Arthrodesis clinical trial.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine named Alan R. Cohen, MD, the new chief of pediatric neurosurgery, effective May 23, according to News-Medical.

Here are five hospitals with recently expanded spine and neurosurgery programs.

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers pinpointed risk factors linked to hospital readmissions after pediatric neurosurgery. The study used the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric database.

Seattle-based University of Washington researchers are studying whether decreasing a spinal cord injury patient's body temperature after injury reduces the injury's severity, according to abc.