Spine

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons provided feedback on CMS's request for input on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.

A new study published in Spine examined the classification for treating thoracolumbar fractures between two different countries.

During a Q&A conducted by SB Nation, Frank Cammisa, MD, Chief Emeritus of the Spine Service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, discussed the long term affects of back pain on pro athletes, and how players can…

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore studied the risk of cardiac arrest in children receiving spine surgery.

LDR, an Austin, Texas-based medical device company for spine disorders, praises North America Spine Society's policy update recommendation to cover both one- and two-level cervical artificial disc replacement.

The National Institute of Health's PubMed Library of Studies indexed Alexandria, Minn.-based Tristate Brain and Spine Institute's recent study on oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion.

The International Spinal Cord Repair organization honored Patrick Ganzer, PhD, of the Texas Biomedical Device Center, UT Dallas, for his research on vagus nerve stimulation, according to UT Dallas News Center.

The ProDisc-C total disc replacement was compared with single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in a new Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery article.

Back Pain Centers of America, an organization connecting back pain patients with physicians in the area, added Long Island (N.Y.) Spine Specialists to its network.

Dr. Samuel David of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, received the 2015 Barbara Turnbull Award for Spinal Cord Research, according to McGill.