Boston Scientific removed unused Infinion CX leads for spinal cord stimulators after reports of 1,081 serious injuries and zero deaths associated with an issue involving the devices. The FDA ...

In the first hours after a severe spinal cord injury, Jonathan Yun, MD, is trying to control what can still be controlled: blood pressure, oxygenation, blood loss, the stability of the patient, and ...

Jeffrey Reuben, MD, an orthopedic surgeon based in Texas, has disclosed a data breach affecting 17,017 current and former patients, according to a Sept. 7 report from The HIPAA Journal.  Dr. Reuben ...

Two Florida men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a $34.8 million healthcare fraud conspiracy involving medically unnecessary orthotic braces billed to Medicare. Kenneth Kessler III, of ...

Tampa, Fla., spine surgeon David Siambanes, DO, 59, and Dawn Stone, RN, 53, an advanced practice nurse, died the morning of Sept. 3 in a plane crash near Tampa Executive Airport. Dr. Siambanes and Ms.

Surgeons are holding MSO and health system partners to a different standard today than in the past, putting a new premium on transparency and flexibility. While organizations have the playbook down in ...

Osteoporosis has a timing problem. The disease can progress quietly for years, without pain or an obvious warning that sends someone to a physician. Then a patient falls, twists the wrong way or ...

Health Medical Practice has expanded its orthopedic services to include cervical spine surgery and treatment through its Center for Orthopedic Care. Its first cervical spine procedure was performed ...

Gainesville-based University of Florida selected Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD, as the next director of the UF Health Cancer Institute, effective Sept. 21. Dr. Mitchell is the Phyllis Kottler Friedman ...

Research related to secondary complications of spinal cord injury is underfunded despite patients identifying them as their most impactful daily burden, according to an op-ed published Sept. 4 in ...

CMS’ shift toward greater financial risk is forcing spine surgeons to look beyond the operating room at the systems that could increasingly determine how they are paid. Three spine surgeons discussed ...

Researchers at New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery identified stem cells that give rise to tendons and ligaments and found that their overactivity may ...