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Harvesting osteochondral grafts doesn't have adverse effects on donor knee function in young athletes two years after undergoing osteochondral autograft transplant for capitellar osteochondritis dissecans, according to a report published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

BACK Center, an orthopedic surgeon group in Melbourne, Fla., and its medical director Richard Hynes, MD, are suing Osler Medical in Melbourne for failing to comply in an agreement, according to a Florida Today news report.

Wayne State University's College of Nursing has received a three-year, $1,078,000 award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study the management of cancer pain in African Americans, according to a university news release.

Patients who take daily doses of opioids for nonmalignant pain are at higher risk of opioid-related mortality, especially if daily doses exceed clinically recommended thresholds, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Frank Farmer, MD, Florida's Surgeon General, signed a final order last Friday that allows for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to move forward with implementation, according to a release from the Florida Society of Pain Management Providers.

Minimally invasive Achilles tendon repair can have good long term outcomes, according to a report published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Jeffrey Rosenberg, MD, a sports medicine physician, recently joined Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J., according to a Benzinga news report.

Inova Health Systems in Falls Church, Va., has entered into a partnership with the Washington Mystic professional women's basketball team, according to a WNBA report.

Robert Olivieri, DC, with the help of a physical therapist, has devised a spinal decompression disc recovery program, aimed at alleviating chronic back pain, according to a Cape May County Herald news report.

Becoming a team physician for professional athletics may seem like an outstanding opportunity, but there are many challenges that go along with the responsibility. "The most challenging part of treating professional athletes is that the expectations are so high," says…