Surgeons at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have launched a hand transplant program and expect to perform the first hand transplant procedure in North Texas within the next year, according to a UT Southwestern news release.
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Leon Benson, MD, is a hand surgeon and member of the board of directors at Illinois Bone & Joint Institute and chief of hand surgery in the department of orthopedic surgery at NorthShore University HealthSystem. He is also the president…
In addition to his work as an orthopedic surgeon, Michael Lewis, MD, is a published author and photographer, whose latest book Seeing More Colors donates profits to the Himalayan Cataract Project. His images have been published in several professional books…
Despite the bipartisan support for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use Incentive Program, the Budget Control Act of 2011 may cause reductions to the program if the Joint Committee's cost cutting proposal isn't up to snuff, according…
A recent study led by Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, an interventional pain management physician and president of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, showed that the rate of injections for back pain has more than doubled in Illinois between 2002 and…
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Sports medicine physician Benjamin Thompson, MD, has joined Milton (Mass.) Hospital, according to a Patriot Ledger news report.
Osteochondral graft placement in a congruent position restores part of the contact mechanics of the ankle joint during autologous osteochondral transplantation of the talus, but unique characteristics of the donor or the patient may cause problems, according to a report…
James Higgins, MD, chief of Union Memorial Hospital's Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore, is performing a new hand surgery procedure using a technique he learned abroad while fulfilling the Godina Traveling Fellowship from the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery…
The shoulder specialty has developed significantly over the past few decades, and more surgeons are now able to conduct research and focus their practices on shoulder-related injuries and conditions. Anthony Romeo, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a challenge to software application developers to create a Facebook application that would aid emergency preparedness and response, according to an HHS news release.