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Richard D. Tombler, MD, recently joined Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg, N.Y., according to a North Country Now report.

A new study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine has found factors that impact youth athlete baseline scores for neurocognitive testing, showing that medical professionals can't assume a perfect baseline score of 100 points for every athlete.

John Uribe, MD, an orthopedic surgeon based in Miami, has performed knee surgery on Florida Panthers goalie Jacob Markstrom, according to a report from the Miami Herald.

A new pelvic floor and abdominal health program solution designed to help administrators add the services line to their hospital has been introduced by MX.com, according to a company news release.

A new study found a high dose of the opiate remifentanil essentially reset nerve signals that caused chronic pain in rats, according to findings published in Science and reported in Nature.

Neal ElAttrache, MD, an orthopedic sports medicine physician with Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Institute in Los Angeles, recently performed elbow surgery on Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Blake Hawksworth, according to an ESPN report.

Here are eight statistics on pain management case revenue and gross charges by number of operating rooms from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. The general trend is that the more operating rooms a center has, the larger the gross…

A report issued by New York state's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, found prescriptions for oxycodone increased by 82 percent from 2007-2010 in the state, according to a New York Times report.  

Come Oct. 1, 2013, the healthcare landscape will be bidding adieu to a friend that has been around for more than 40 years: ICD-9.

James Andrews, MD, founder of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., recently performed surgery on Washington Redskins linebacker Brian Orakpo, according to a Redskins Talk report.