Spine

A group of researchers examined a discogram's impact on adjacent levels for back pain patients and published their results in Spine.

  James Lynch, MD, founder of SpineNevada Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, recently received the High Fives Foundation Community Five Award.

  Armin Oskouei, MD, has opened Ortho Sport and Spine Physicians in Atlanta.

Four spine surgeons discuss the impact of electronic health records and whether they have seen a return on investment.

A recent issue of the International Journal of Spine Surgery included the results of a multi-site minimally invasive prospective registry based on information from the minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion subgroup.

Monica c. Wehby, MD, a Portland, Ore.-based neurosurgeon announced her candidacy for the United States Senate in October 2013. Since then, she has quietly built a campaign that has exploded over the past few weeks leading up to the primary.

The North American Spine Society recently launched a new website design.

The Seattle Science Foundation is hosting a Spine Conference Series on Wednesday, May 21.

  Here are seven things for spinal surgeons to know for May 15, 2014.

Back pain imaging and vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fractures were among the list of Medicare's "low-value" procedures in 2009, and new studies are examining whether these procedures are overused.