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James Andrews, MD, founder of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., recently performed surgery on Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut’s right elbow, according to a Wisconsin Radio Network report. Mr. Bogut injured his elbow last…

A.J. Lauder, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Longview (Wash.) Orthopedic Associates, recently performed a rare wrist replacement on a patient's right hand, according to a report from The Daily News.

A recent breakthrough regarding treatment for heterotopic ossification could bring relief to wounded military personnel and civilians, according to an American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons news release.

Robert F. LaPrade, MD, orthopedic surgeon with The Steadman Clinic and director of the biomechanics department of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute in Vail, Colo., recently developed a comprehensive compilation of measurements of arthroscopically pertinent bony and soft tissue landmarks,…

Chicago — Leading orthopedic and spine surgeons will present at the upcoming 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference: Improving Profitability and Business and Legal Issues on June 9-11, 2011, in Chicago.

Andrew Weiland, MD, a hand specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, and New Jersey Nets head team physician Riley Williams, III, MD, recently performed wrist surgery on Nets player Deron Williams, according to a New…

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.