Ian Furness, MD, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Fond du Lac, Wis., recently died while vacationing in Thailand, according to the Fond du Lac Reporter.
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The National Athletic Trainers' Association is undergoing a nomenclature study to determine whether "athletic trainer" and "athletic training" are the best terms for the profession.
Hospitals are employing surgeons at a higher rate than ever before, and many surgery centers are competing with these hospitals for physician as well as patient volume. Here, Cliff Deveny, MD, vice president for physician practice management at Catholic Health…
National Pain Institute in Port St. Lucie, Fla., now offers more than 25 treatments for acute or chronic back and neck pain.
Robert Gruber, DO, has been named chairman of the department of physiatry and interventional spine at Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla.
Jack Kelley, MD, was recently named to the Branford (Conn.) Sports Hall of Fame, according to a Shoreline Times news report.
Marc F. Swiontkowski, MD, has been named editor of JBJS Case Connector, according to an AAOS Now report.
A new study out of the University of California, San Francisco, found that both low and high levels of physical activity can cause faster knee cartilage degeneration when compared with moderate activity levels, according to an Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics…
The U.S. arm of the VisionPro Sports Institute Holdings of England is planning a new Major League Soccer stadium in Tampa, Fla., that will include a sports medicine center, according to a Tampa Bay Online report.
Hospital pharmacies are being forced to increase drug compounding efforts to meet demands after the closure of the New England Compounding Center and related compounding pharmacies linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak, according to WBUR Boston.
