Three major investors in Smith+Nephew have encouraged the company to consider breaking up parts of its business and spinning off its orthopedics division, according to a Nov. 15 report from Mass ...

In August, Chris Larson, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Golden Valley, Minn.-based Twin Cities Orthopedics and head team physician for the Minnesota Vikings, performed knee surgery on Vikings ...

Bethlehem, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute has added sports medicine surgeon Leighann Krasney, DO, to its Mountain Valley Orthopedics team. Dr. Krasney specializes in shoulder and elbow ...

A patient was awarded $3.16 million in a medical malpractice case involving a spinal surgery from September 2015 that resulted in irreversible nerve damage, according to a Nov. 13 report from the law ...

Here is how U.S. News' top 10 hospitals for orthopedic surgery ranked for patient safety in 2024: 2. Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Minn.): A 4. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York ...

Bolt Navigation launched the next generation of its spine system, according to a Nov. 14 news release shared with Becker's.

Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute has been at the forefront of spine care, and recently a team partnered with Thomas Jefferson University Hospita ...

Two major commercial payers in the mid-Atlantic region have expanded coverage for Centinel Spine's 1- and 2-level lumbar ...

Johnson & Johnson MedTech has entered into an exclusive commercial distribution agreement with Responsive Arthroscopy, a medical device company specializing in sports soft tissue repair solutions. The ...

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is becoming the parent company of Black Hills Surgical Hospital and Black Hills Orthopedic and Spine Center, and those en ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

A total of 3,454 physicians performed "a measurable number" of low-value spine surgeries, and in that time they received a total $64 million from device and drug companies, the Lown Institute found.