Spine

Young spine surgeons today are exiting their fellowships and entering into a vastly different healthcare environment than even five years ago.

Kenneth Pettine, MD, recently completed the first series of M6-C implants as part of the U.S. FDA clinical trial at Arete Surgical Center in Johnstown, Colo.

The North American Spine Society's Spine on the Hill blog recently highlighted four key legislative updates for spine surgeons to know.

A group of researchers compared C-arm fluoroscopy, portable X-ray radiography and portable cone-beam computed tomography for the advantages and disadvantages of each system and published the results in The Spine Journal.

Laser Spine Institute announced the company will open new centers in three Midwestern cities this year.

DFINE announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the EU-STAR Clinical Trial, to evaluate clinical outcomes in patients receiving treatment with the STAR Tumor Ablation System for the palliative treatment of metastatic spinal tumors.

  Raj N. Sureja, MD, of Orthopaedic & Spine Center in Newport News, Va., recently became the first physician in Virginia, and one of the first physicians in the United States, to use the Stryker TroFlex Curved Needle to treat…

Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta announced the establishment of a dedicated orthopedic joint and spine center.

Here are 13 administrators of spine-driven ambulatory surgery centers.

In August 2013, the Physician Payment Sunshine Act went into effect, meaning industry interactions with physicians were recorded and published online. The first set of interactions published on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website were in September 2014,…