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A new professional soccer team is coming to Jacksonville, Fla., and the Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute will serve as the sports medicine provider for them, the team announced today.

Tony Rhorer, MD, is set to be the chairman of an upcoming course exploring Surgical Approaches for Internal Fixation method.

Haemi Choi, MD, and Douglas Evans, MD, are set to be the official physicians for the women's and men's hockey teams, respectively, as they travel to Granada, Spain, in February for the Winter World University Games.

Boston-based New England Baptist Hospital plans to move from its current Mission Hill, Mass., location, according to a Boston Globe report.

One Louisville, Ky.-based orthopedic surgeon is practicing what she preaches — and getting her coworkers on board, too.

Jane S. Tan, MD, is currently seeing patients at Resurgens Orthopaedics' Covington (Ga.) office.

Kaitlyn Farrington, a gold-medal-winning snowboarder for the U.S. Olympic team, is retiring at age 25 because of a degenerative spine condition known as congenital cervical stenosis, writes Alyssa Roenigk for ESPN.

When a new indoor facility opened this week for the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team, physician Jeff Laubenthal, MD, was honored as a part of the ceremony, reports Roll Bama Roll.

University of California Davis surgeons have commenced a clinical trial to test the safety of a device that can quickly extract young cells from the irrigation fluid used during orthopedic surgery.

Robert Anderson, MD, Carolina Panthers' team doctor and foot and ankle specialist, performed surgery on Baltimore Raven's cornerback Jimmy Smith back in November and now, Mr. Smith is on pace to start back next season, reports the Baltimore Sun.