Gerald Kane, a de-licensed orthopedic surgeon in Highland Park, Ill., has pleaded guilty to over-prescribing painkilling drugs linked to three patient deaths, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
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Orthopedic surgeon Jack M. Walker, MD, died recently at age 85, according to an obituary in the StarPress.
P. Denny Oreb is stepping down as executive vice president of the Orthopedic Institute of Oklahoma, an eight-physician practice in Oklahoma City that runs an eight-bed specialty hospital, according to a release from the Orthopedic Institute.
The University of California at San Francisco has opened its $1.6 billion Orthopaedic Institute, according to a release from UCSF.
With the Senate Finance Committee expected to vote on its health reform bill as early as Tuesday, medical devicemakers are asking for a reduction in fees on medical devices in the bill from $40 billion to $15 billion over the…
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Physicians at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., have raised concerns about a proposed change to the University's conflict-of-interest rules that would allow physicians to make presentations for medical device manufacturers, but still ban physicians from giving speeches for…
Blue Cross Blue Shield has notified physicians and other healthcare providers that data, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised when a laptop containing the information was stolen in August from an employee at BCBS Association's headquarters in Chicago,…
The FDA has approved additional indications for EquivaBone, a hard-setting osteoinductive osteoinductive bone graft substitute from Etex Corp., according to a release from Etex.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is proposing a 0.5 percent increase in Medicare reimbursements for physicians in 2011 and 2012, rather than a one-year fix in reimbursements proposed by Sen. Max Baucus in his health reform bill, according to a…
A new study finds that patients needing a second anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were likely to be women, younger or those using less experienced surgeons, according to a release by the Hospital for Special Surgery.