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James Andrews, MD, co-founder of the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla., will soon perform knee surgery on the St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford.
Los Angeles-based Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic announced the addition of Michael B. Banffy, MD, to its medical staff.
In a recent study, published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, researchers found that ACL reconstruction results in more than $50,000 in savings per patient.
The market for sports medicine devices is expected to be valued at $5.7 billion by 2017, according to a Markets and Markets report.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Steven Chudik, MD, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician, a patent for his arthroscopic rotator cuff repair technique, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
People trying to enroll in health plans through HealthCare.gov should anticipate further outages during the next four weeks as HHS and its contractors work to repair the site, according to a report from The Hill.
Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center has named James C. Wittig, MD, vice chairman of orthopedic surgery, education and research.
The Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society has appointed Kevin Black, MD, as its 2013-2014 president.
In a recent study published in the Journal of Anatomy, Steven Claes, MD, and John Bellemans, MD, Belgian surgeons, shared the discovery of the anterolateral ligament, according to a Ku Leuven report.