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The Egg Harbor (N.J.) Township Committee approved an agreement Feb. 21 allowing Atlantic Medical Imaging to pay reduced taxes for five years, PressofAtlanticCity.com reports.

A Carestream DRX Core detector will be used at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Titan Medical earned the Canadian Patent "End Effector Apparatus for a Surgical Instrument."

Anthony Yeung, MD, founder of Phoenix-based Desert Institute for Spine Care, is a pioneer in endoscopic spine surgery. He developed the Yeung Endoscopic Spine System in the early 1990s and has perfected endoscopic procedures over the nearly three decades since.

Hopedale (Ill.) Medical Complex welcomed Nitin Kukkar, MD, according to the PJ Star.

Diane Dahm, MD, repaired the torn meniscus in the right knee of Minnesota Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler, the team announced.

Tampa Bay Rays top prospect Brent Honeywell tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm Feb. 22, team physician Koco Eaton, MD, confirmed, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

Twin Falls, Idaho-based St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center held a ribbon cutting for its new medical plaza Feb. 21, according to MagicValley.com. Medical Plaza 2 will feature outpatient medical imaging services.

Backed by strong supportive evidence, the minimally invasive spine approach continues to gain steam in 2018. Device companies are making splashes in the industry with novel MIS technologies and spine surgeons are increasingly leveraging the technique.

Surgeons at Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University Health System in Seoul, South Korea, successfully performed spinal surgery using Medtronic's O-ARM O2 imaging system and Stealth Station, its accompanying navigation system, Korea Biomedical Review reports.