Spine

Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news this week.

The dawn of a new year gives all of us a chance to reflect on the year gone by and lessons we have learned. Here, five spine surgeons discuss the most important professional lessons they learned in 2014.

Chico, Calif.-based Enloe Medical Center named Neurosurgeon Jeffrey Lobosky, MD, a Physician Legacy Award winner.

Minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion surgery obtained a Category I CPT code beginning January 1, 2015.

With diabetes becoming more common, and one of the most frequent comorbidities in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy, a group of researchers sought to find risk factors for poor outcomes in this patient population and published their findings in The…

Healthcare innovation and delivery in the United States is designed to meet rigorous quality standards while promoting cutting-edge technology for better outcomes. However, this care isn't always the most economically effective or scalable in all situations.

AO North America named Jack Lewin, MD, keynote speaker at the One AO Meeting.

Surgical site infections are serious complications and have a 6 percent to 24 percent prevalence rate among patients who undergo posterior spinal fusion for neuromuscular scoliosis, according to an article in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

AO North America named Robert A. McGuire Jr., MD, president-elect, according to a Mississippi Business Journal report.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines whether cervical spine clearance protocols in California are effective at trauma centers.