Courtney Vandersloot, guard for the Chicago Sky, has undergone surgery for a torn right anterior cruciate ligament, according to a June 24 report from Athlon Sports. Brian Cole, MD, a sports medicine ...

Ehsan Jazini, MD, of VSI in Reston, Va., is the first in the U.S. to combine Centinel Spine’s Prodisc C-Nova and C-Vivo disc replacement implants. Instead of performing a three-level spinal fusion, Dr ...

Hospital partnerships come with benefits and tradeoffs for spine surgeons. Knowing how to approach these contracts can help physicians find their best match. Two spine surgeons discuss their ...

SGMC Health in Valdosta, Ga., added neurosurgeon Shahin Etebar, MD, according to a June 24 news release. Dr. Etebar has more than 30 years of experience in spine and neurosurgery, and he has training ...

Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics is partnering with Dimension Ortho, a company that uses 3D printing for custom bracing and fracture care. Rothman will implement Dimension Ortho’s platform, ...

A new technology from Ocutrx is transforming how physicians, including spine surgeons, operate. Ocutrx unveiled HemoLucence, a feature of the OR-Bot system that lets surgeons render blood translucent ...

Spinal neurosurgeon Allan Levi, MD, PhD, was named as the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer Endowed Chair in Neurological Surgery, according to a June 23 news ...

Curiteva’s Inspire Trabecular PEEK standalone anterior lumbar interbody fusion system earned FDA 510(k) clearance, according to a June 24 news release. The 3D-printed PEEK standalone implant is the ...

An Irvine, Calif.-based Hoag Orthopedic Institute orthopedic surgeon has become the first on the West Coast to perform a total hip arthroplasty using Corin’s ApolloHipX on the West Coast. Travis ...

Here are four spine surgeons named to leadership roles since February. 1. UChicago Medicine named Mohamad Bydon, MD, as the inaugural chair of the department of neurological surgery in February, and ...

Ishpeming, Mich.-based UP Health System-Bell has become the first system in the region to add the Persona IQ smart knee implant, according to a June 24 report from The Mining Journal. The smart ...

Dante Implicito, MD, has been named the inaugural Dr. Michael A. Kelly Endowed Chair in Orthopedics at Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center. The endowed chair was ...