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Sports medicine physicians can tackle the opioid crisis with non-opioid pain management, according to Bert Mandelbaum, MD, orthopedic surgeon and co-chair of medical affairs at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles in Medscape Orthopedics.

Salt Lake City-based orthopedic surgeon Kade Huntsman, MD, leads the Salt Lake Orthopaedic Clinic at St. Marks Hospital. He performs robot-assisted spine surgery and uses cutting-edge technologies in his procedures.

Simon Lee, MD, repaired the ruptured left Achilles tendon of Chicago White Sox prospect Jake Burger, MLB.com reports.

Rodrigo Lasmar, MD, will repair the broken metatarsal of Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. in early March, the team reports.

Spine surgery is among the costliest procedures in healthcare today, and providers across the country are examining evidence-based practices to achieve high-quality outcomes while lowering the economic burden.

University of California in San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is the first standalone pediatric hospital to acquire Surgical Theater's Precision Virtual Reality visualization platform.

The rapidly growing 3-D printing industry could lead to enhanced spine implants as well as decreased surgical time and improved patient outcomes in spine surgery, according to a systematic literature review in the Journal of Spine Surgery.

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."