A new program at the University of California, San Francisco, is encouraging teenage girls to develop an interest in orthopedic surgery, which is still a male-dominated bastion even as women flood into the rest of medicine, the San Francisco Examiner…
Uncategorized
While medical educators routinely use simulated mannequins to teach basic diagnosis, virtual reality is much more challenging in surgery because it involves making precise movements and sensing minute resistance to instruments, Wired Science reports.
Charles L. Saltzman, MD, was installed as the president of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society on July 17 at the society's 25th annual meeting, according to an AOFAS news release.
The healthcare sector added around 20,000 jobs in July, in line with the average month gain seen in the first half of 2009, according to a news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The HHS Office of Inspector General expects to recover of more than $2.4 billion for healthcare fraud, waste and abuse in the first half of fiscal year 2009, according to an OIG release.
Advertisement
Here is a list of 10 companies for surgery centers and hospitals to know.
Virginia-based Carilion Clinic has offered to sell two outpatient centers it acquired last year following an antitrust complaint by the Federal Trade Commission stating that the acquisition eliminated Carilion's competition in the area, according to a report by the Roanoke…
Sue Nanda of Costa Mesa, Calif., was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to recruiting patients for unnecessary cosmetic surgeries as part of a $154 million insurance fraud scheme, according to a report in The Orange County…
A recent, controversial study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vertebroplasty, a procedure commonly used to treat painful, osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in which cement is used to fill the cracks, is no more effective than…
Twin Cities Orthopedics, an independent physicians group, is building a new clinic in Edina, Minn., to consolidate three locations in the surrounding area, according to a report in Finance and Commerce.