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Patrick Harr, MD, a physician specializing in family and sports medicine at St. Francis Orthopedic & Sports Medicine in Maryville, Mo., has retired.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announced support for the Ponesti International Association, which created a pathway for training and treating patients with the Ponesti Method for congenital clubfoot in underserved populations, according to an AAOS Now report.

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 15, Ann Geier, RN, MS, CNOR, senior vice president of operations, Susan Kizirian, COO and Robert Westergard, CFO of Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, discussed…

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's "Enabling Patient-Centered Care through Health Information Technology" report finds substantial evidence that health information technology applications with patient-centered care-related components have a positive effect on healthcare outcomes.

There are several outpatient specialties that evolved greatly over the past five years, and pain management is one that greatly differs from when it first hit the scene. At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in…

Adding spine and orthopedics to an ambulatory surgery center is not a cake walk, as there are several points to know regarding their background and how they should be treated in managed care contracting negotiations.

An estimated 38 percent of patients who have migraines need preventive treatment, but only about one-third of them use it, according to study reported in Pain Medicine News.

NeurogesX, a pharmaceutical company developing non-opioid pain management therapies, today announced that it has received approval for two patents for NGX-1998, a liquid formulation of prescription strength capsaicin.

In an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, former CMS administrator Donald Berwick, MD, said he doesn't think healthcare in the United States "will ever go back" to a pre-reform state.

Youth with just one kidney need not be barred from playing contact sports, according to a study in the July 2012 Pediatrics and reported by the American Academy of Pediatrics.