Spine

Here are nine spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news this past week.

Providence-based Rhode Island Hospital now offers a new spinal treatment for patients suffering from chronic back pain, according to Taunton Daily Gazette.

West Orange, N.J.-based Atlantic Spine Center will provide stem cell treatment for patients with degenerative disc disease.

Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago researchers reported 60 genetic diseases affecting the skin, central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.

A new article published in Spine examines four randomized controlled clinical trials included in the Yale University Open Data Access Project on recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2.

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Spine surgeons Atif Malik, MD, Sandeep Sherlekar, MD, and Said Osman, MD, returned to the United States after a humanitarian mission trip to provide care to Iraqi patients.

Healthgrades ranked Visalia, Calif.-based Kaweah Delta Health Care District among the top hospitals for spine surgery, according to Visalia Times-Delta.

Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero, MD, reported he successfully completed a head transplant on a monkey at Harbin Medical University in China, according to Independent.

Ali A. Baaj, MD, Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, Juan S. Uribe, MD, Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, and Mark S. Greenberg, MD, updated the "Handbook of Spine Surgery, Second Edition."