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The San Diego Padres medical staff at Scripps Clinic's Shiley Center for Orthopedic Research and Education recently developed an app for the iPad to track and file a player's athletic health on a day-to-day basis, according to a San Diego…

Sandy Kunkel, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, recently performed outpatient rotator cuff surgery on Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels at Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital Northwest in Indianapolis, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Simultaneous knee replacement was associated with significantly fewer prosthetic joint infections and other revision knee operations within one year of surgery compared to total knee replacements performed in two separate procedures, according to an American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons news…

Sourendra Raut, MD, a foot, ankle and sports medicine physician, recently joined Resurgens Orthopaedics in Cumming and Roswell, Ga., according to a practice news release.

Freddie H. Fu, MD, chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, was recently honored for his work in advancing diversity in orthopedics at the 2011 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting. A…

Orthopedic surgeons and researchers meeting at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2011 annual meeting in San Diego agree that platelet-rich plasma injections are an option for treating many orthopedic conditions, but the efficacy of the injection is unproven, according…

Some sports medicine physicians are challenging the ban on helmets in women's lacrosse while others support it, according to a story published in the New York Times.

Brian Cole, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and the director of the cartilage restoration center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, recently treated wrestler Travis Paulson's injured knee with an experimental cartilage restoration treatment, according…

Daniel J. Berry, MD, chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was recently named the 2011 president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, according to an AAOS news release.

Benjamin J. Schwartz, MD, has joined the Hughston Clinic in Georgia, according to a clinic news release.