In 2021, several spine and orthopedic societies published a stance warning against allowing non-spine surgeons to perform spinal arthrodesis. Years after that statement was published, many spine ...

Spine surgeons have been on their toes keeping up with new developments in healthcare policy in the first months of the year. Here is how five surgeons are thinking about the landscape. Note: ...

Spine Surgeon, Assistant Professor at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, and the first ...

recently concluded a three-day fellowship course in cutting-edge laparo-endoscopic hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, a specialisation on diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts.

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

“Our data on health insurance claims shows some procedures, including spinal surgery and gastrointestinal procedures, can end up costing more than $300,000.” However she said the health ...

we confirmed the responsible segment of the lumbar spine with a nerve block, demonstrating its effectiveness in postoperative results,” the team explained. Subsequently, the patient underwent ...

Princess Eugenie is to have surgery on her back later this month ... is said to need an operation to correct a spinal defect. Royal sources said they believe Eugenie is suffering from a curvature ...

The Health Information & Quality Authority (HIQA) has published a 200-page review into the use of unapproved implantable springs in spinal surgery at Temple Street Children's University Hospital ...

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente plans to construct a new hospital tower at its Sunnyside Medical Center campus in Clackamas, Ore. Five notes: 1. The new tower is slated to open in 2029 ...

I was being bed-bathed when a cheerful young doctor popped up to ask if he may insert his finger in my rectum (part of a test to rate my spinal nerve damage); the ‘chef’s kiss’ to my ...

Endoscopic spine surgery is a modern technique that enables surgeons to treat conditions such as herniated discs (slip discs), spinal stenosis and chronic back pain through tiny incisions using an ...