Spine

A study published in The Spine Journal examines the preoperative predictors of increased hospital costs for elective anterior cervical fusions.

Northwestern Medicine recently launched a 1 million-square-foot multidisciplinary outpatient center on the health system's downtown medical campus in Chicago.

Dionysios Klironomos, MD, a neurosurgeon from Duluth, Minn., has joined the Ohio Health MedCentral hospitals, reports the Mansfield News Journal.

Michael H. Heggeness, MD, was recently the recipient of the North American Spine Society's Henry Farfan Award, reports AAOS Now.

A new randomized, controlled study published in The Spine Journal found percutaneous laser disc decompression, then surgery if needed, had similar outcomes to surgery.

Phoenix-based The CORE Institute, added Tammy J. Penhollow, DO, to its physician team.

Mohammad Diab, MD, and his longtime patient, Carol Tran, are working together to design an app that helps sufferers of scoliosis parse through some of the more difficult aspects of pre- and postoperation life, reports KTVU news.

A group of researchers examined the risk factors for major complications during scoliosis surgery and published their findings in Spinal Deformity.

Endoscopic transforaminal decompressive surgery is one of the up-and-coming technologies that could change how traditional spine surgery is performed. Anthony Yeung, MD, founder of Desert Institute for Spine Care in Phoenix, developed the Yeung Endoscopic Spine System and all members…

Dallas-based North American Spine is celebrating six years of a minimally invasive spine surgery meant to treat chronic back pain.