Spine

Here are five important updates from professional spine societies in the last month:

The Medical College of Wisconsin received $1 million from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Division to study treatment for spinal cord injury patients, according to a report in the Milwaukee Business Journal.

An article recently published in Spine compares the length of stay for patients after undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with and without corpectomy.

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OrthoCarolina's Bruce V. Darden II, MD, has been inducted as 2014 president of the Cervical Spine Research Society.

Potomac Spine & Pain Specialists has opened in Olney, Md.

Neurosurgeon Monica Wehby, MD, emerged from Tuesday's Oregon GOP Senate primary race victorious and is preparing for November's midterm elections, according to a Fox News report.

The Joint Commission has awarded Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare with disease-specific certification for its spine surgery program, according to the Cape Gazette report.

A group of researchers examined the impact of cervical spine diagnoses on professional football players and published their results in an issue of Spine.

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