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Duluth, Minn.-based St. Mary's Medical Center, part of Duluth-based Essentia Healthcare, will begin using Stryker's MAKO robotic-arm assisted surgery system, according to Fox KQDS.

Researchers developed a 3D-printable neuraxial anesthesia platform designed to assist anesthesiology residents with procedural training prior to patient interaction.

The cervical fusion market has seen tremendous growth in the past two years and is expected to continue to surge in the coming years, according to a Market Research Future report.

South Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida and Miami Heat are teaming up to develop the Miami Health Sports Medicine Center, according to the South Florida Business Journal.

Tampa, Fla.-based Physician Partners of America now offers "bloodless" minimally invasive laser spine surgery.

Stelios Koutsoumbelis, MD, was among the surgeons who completed the first cases using Centinel Spine's FLX Platform of 3D-printed titanium interbody devices.

An AI platform designed to identify various acute neurological illnesses, such as stroke, hemorrhage and hydrocephalus, recognized disease in CT scans in just 1.2 seconds, according to New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 

Orthopedic surgeon Timothy Kremchek, MD, estimates about 20 percent of the roughly 6,500 procedures he has performed in the past five years involved patients age 18 or younger, WLWT5 reports.

After spending 11 days at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Indians outfielder Leonys Martin will miss the rest of the 2018 season as he fights a bacterial infection, ESPN reports.

EOS imaging installed its 100th system in the U.S. at the Methodist Dallas Medical Center.