Arthroscopic knee surgery for degenerative meniscal tears is one procedure that should be used less frequently, according to surgeons. In many cases, the procedure can be avoided with nonsurgical ...

Patients across the U.S. have filed lawsuits in federal court against Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific, Medtronic and Nevro alleging spinal cord stimulator devices caused injuries including ...

After 23 years at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City, Brian Wolf, MD, thought he understood how the orthopedic department worked. Then he sat in the chair’s office. The clinical work was ...

The question used to be almost automatic. Do you take my insurance? Shobhit Minhas, MD, orthopedic hand surgeon and partner at Geneva, Ill.-based Fox Valley Orthopedics, is hearing a different one ...

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco has opened an eight-bed Children’s Neuroscience Specialty Unit, expanding its inpatient capacity for children with neurologic and neurosurgical ...

Houston-based TYBR Health, a medtech and orthopedic regenerative medicine company, has secured $30 million in a Series A financing round.  The company will use the funds to expand commercial access to ...

A child with a malformed hip does not become a different patient on their 18th birthday. Similarly, the disease does not recognize the border between pediatric and adult medicine. The healthcare ...

Orthopedic medtech company Zimmer Biomet has filed a lawsuit against one of its former executives, claiming he stole confidential information, according to a July 20 report from The Indiana Lawyer.

Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based North Star Health Alliance will hold a public hearing July 30 in Watertown on its plan to close North Country Orthopaedic Group’s ASC, one of three hearings scheduled the week ...

Legal pressure on orthopedic and spine providers came from multiple directions in the second quarter, spanning payer fraud suits, a kickback guilty plea and a device liability claim. Here are five ort ...

A patient sees a primary care physician for back pain, then a physical therapist, then a pain specialist, perhaps a chiropractor, perhaps another pain specialist. There may be injections, an ablation, ...

Surgical workflow and operations software company eXeX appointed Max Reinhardt president of healthcare. Mr. Reinhardt will lead commercial execution for the company’s surgery intelligence platform, ...