Spine

The Business of Spine announced that it has received a national Stevie Award for the most innovative company of the year with 10 or less employees.   

Las Vegas-based Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center has leased 32,508 square feet of medical office space for approximately $7 million at Longford Medical Center in Las Vegas, according to a Nevada Business report.

Here are 20 spine and orthopedic practices that added new office locations, expanded offerings or merged with others to grow into a bigger group in 2013.

Psychological distress can have an impact on outcomes for spinal disorder treatment, and a new article in The Spine Journal has identified clinical predictors of psychological distress.

At the 2013 NASS Annual Meeting, Joseph S. Cheng, MD, MS, associate professor of neurologic surgery and orthopedic surgery and director of the neurosurgery spine program at Vanderbilt University gave a presentation titled "Who's to Blame? When Physicians Rely on…

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for today.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that the Texas Emerging Technology Fund will invest $1.75 million in Austin-based Minimus Spine to support its non-surgical lumbar disc herniation technology, according to a KETK NBC report.

Aurora Spine announced that the first U.S. surgical implant of its ZIP ULTRA Minimally Invasive Interspinous Fusion System was performed at Southern California Hospital in Culver City.

The North American Spine Society and Alliance of Specialty Medicine made several recommendations to the Senate Finance and Ways and Means Committee as they considered changes to the sustainable growth rate, and while many were incorporated NASS still has concerns,…

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery recently published a retrospective matched case control study examining the association between perioperative allogeneic transfusion volume and postoperative infection for lumbar spine surgery patients.