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With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in place, the country will need roughly 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025 to cover the law's preventive care provisions and general population growth, according to a new study from the…

Edward V. Craig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery Affiliated Physicians Office in Greenwich, Conn., has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, according to a Norwalk Plus report.

James Andrews, MD, orthopedic surgeon with Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., has performed knee surgery on Minnesota Timberwolves forward Chase Budinger, according to a Pioneer Press report.

More military veterans are now reporting back pain than in the past, among both front-line troops as well as other deployed personnel, according to a report published in the Journal Sentinel.

California Pain, based in Freemont and Pleasanton, has partnered with Boost Medical, which will now oversee various aspects of the practice's business management.

Monroe Capital has launched a new healthcare finance company to assist lower middle-market healthcare companies in meeting their liquidity needs to fund working capital, growth initiatives, expansion and refinancing existing debt.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers. He is also a clinical professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine…

Here are 12 recent orthopedic surgeries for professional athletes.

Despite previously published literature, research from the Hospital for Special Surgery suggests morbidly obese patients who undergo total knee replacement surgery have similar pain and function outcomes as patients in other weight categories.

Patients who make $35,000 a year or less report better outcomes after knee replacement surgery than people who earn more, according to research from the Mayo Clinic and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.