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Thomas Byrd, MD, team physician for the Pittsburgh Pirates, recently performed hip surgery on Pirates pitcher Charlie Morton, according to an MLB report.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recently invited payors, purchasers, government officials, industry representatives and other healthcare stakeholders to the inaugural Orthopaedic Quality Institute in Washington, D.C., to discuss improving quality and reducing cost of orthopedic care, according to an…

The lead researcher on a new study about pain treatment found that the presence and level of severity of pain symptom clusters affects treatment, Pain Medicine News reported.

Florida-based physician Dean Fishman, MD, has coined the term "Text Neck" as a new medical condition and has opened the Text Neck Institute to treat it, a NY Daily News report said.

ONC and Health 2.0 are seeking applications that use the popHealth tool to gather more patient populations data that healthcare providers can use to improve care, according to a Government Health IT report.

Among collegiate football players, the instances of morphologic abnormalities associated with cam and pincer femoroacetabular impingement are more common than previously thought, according to a study reported in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Marc J. Philippon, managing partner at The Steadman Clinic and director of the Steadman Phillippon Research Institute in Vail, Colo., was recently named to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation's board of trustees, according to U.S. Ski Team news…

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has established the Alan M. Levine, MD, Education Fund, named for the organization's former chair of the AAOS Council on Education who died suddenly in 2009, according to an AAOS Now report.

Ira Guttentag, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and team physician for the Tampa Bay Lightning, has performed arthroscopic knee surgery on both knees of Lightning defenseman Mattias Ohlund, according to a report from The Tampa Tribune.

As of Sept. 30, CMS has paid more than $850 million as part of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, according to a news release by the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society.