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David Hay, MD, a sports medicine physician at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, recently performed hand surgery on Anaheim Ducks left winger Jason Blake, according to a Ducks news release.

There will be a Senate committee hearing on the marketing on football helmets and other sports-related equipment designed to reduce the risk of concussions, according to a report from Yahoo Sports.

Sports medicine physician Christopher Peer, MD, recently joined Portage Health Hospital in Michigan, according to a report from Fox and TV 6.

In a recent letter, the American Society of Anesthesiologists joined 19 other specialty physician associations in urging members of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board as part of their broader deficit reduction package,…

Two TRICARE beneficiaries and two others have filed a $4.9 billion class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense and TRICARE to seek damages from a recent data breach, according to a Nextgov.com report.

Bryan Kelly, MD, co-director for the Center for Hip Pain and Preservation at the Hospital for Special Surgery and his colleagues found that hip arthroscopy performs as well as open procedures to restore the mechanical range of motion for patients…

The St. John Medical Center in Westlake, Ohio has announced the expansion of the Pain Management Center and an extension of the University Hospitals Neurological Institute, according to a report by the West Shore Sun.

"A History of Orthopedics," written by Justin Howland, MD, tracks the early use of medicine during ancient times all the way to orthopedic practices in the 20th century, according to the Redding Record Searchlight.

Surgeons and specialists at Brigham and Women's Hospital recently performed a double hand transplant on a 65-year-old patient who lost both his arms below the elbows and legs below the knees from sepsis, according to a report in the Boston…

Fifty-six million U.S. patients have viewed their medical records on an electronic health record and 41 million more are interested in doing so, according to a Manhattan Research study and news release.