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Telemedicine around the world is estimated to have a 19 percent compound annual growth rate from 2010-2015, according to a Bharat Book Bureau news release.

A teleconference by CMS will explain meaningful use requirements for electronic health records, according to an AHA News Now report.

The New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians will hold its first annual symposium in November entitled "Pain Medicine Symposium 2011: Evolving Advanced Pain Therapies," according to an organization report.

Autologous chondrocyte implantation can produce good outcomes when used among young patients, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons CEO Karen L. Hackett, FACHE, CAE, recently led a group of executives from several organizations on a trip to China to discuss potential collaborations in the future, according to an AAOS Now report.

Lynette Bear, an nursing anesthetist at Laser Spine Institute in Philadelphia, has earned her doctorate degree in nursing with executive leadership from Rush University in Chicago, according to a practice news release.

Mary I. O'Connor, MD, chief of the department of orthopedic surgery at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., will be the principle investigator in a study examining why women are more likely to develop knee osteoarthritis than men, according to a…

Robert Villarreal, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, had his medical license suspended after admitting to performing surgery under the influence of prescription drugs that were illegally obtained, according to a local WPRI report.

William Sterett, MD, a former partner at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., is suing the clinic over his termination, which occurred in June, according to a Vail Daily report.

According to a report by the Reading Eagle, treating chronic pain patients who also have addictions to substances like alcohol and opiates can be very challenging.