Spine

The North American Spine Society created evidence-based coverage policy recommendations for spine care treatments, procedures and diagnostics.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for May 1, 2014.

  More than half of spine and neurosurgeons admitted to wrong-level localization — operations on incorrect levels in the spinal cord — when performing posterior spine surgery, during their careers, according to the results of a national survey published in…

Daniel Lu, MD, and Reggie Edgerton, MD, recently received a five-year grant to explore new therapies for patients with spinal cord injuries from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Dr. Lu and Dr. Edgerton are researchers at the…

A study recently published in Spine examines the patient characteristics associated with increased postoperative length of stay and readmission after elective laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis.

An article in Kaiser Health News analyzed the Choosing Wisely campaign, questioning why the North American Spine Society placed "using bone growth material in spinal fusion in the neck" on the list when the FDA issued a safety alert about…

  Cornell University students are conducting a survey examining the use of spine surgery instrumentation in ambulatory surgery centers.

Spine surgeons face several huge challenges today; what are the biggest challenges?

The Spine Journal recently published a study examining the limitations of administrative data in spine research.

Past President of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery Jerome M. Colter, MD, passed away earlier this month, according to an obituary written by Alexander Vaccaro, MD, and published in Spine.