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We are the publishers of Orthopedics This Week, the most widely read publication in the Orthopedics industry. Orthopedics is, in our way of thinking, a small town with roughly 250,000 reside...
Bipartisan bill HR 2474 the Medical Product Review Harmonization Act of 2017 was submitted by California U.S. House of Representatives Mimi...
Jack Zigler keeps tracking his ProDisc patients, now 12 years post FDA approval. Just as he found at 3 years, 5 years and 7 years post appro...
Spook technology stolen from U.S. spy agencies was used by hackers in a phishing cyberattack that crippled Britain's National Health Service...
Orthopedics This Week calls for a change in the economic framework for the clinical study process globally. The current system is undermined...
Once upon a time lumbar arthroplasty was the most innovative and exciting development in spine surgery. Thirteen years ago the procedure hit...
Millions of patients have evaluated their hospital, physician and nurse experience by way of the HCAHPS survey. Patients seem happy. But CMS...
A bill is pending to amend the Internal Revenue Code's Public Health Service Act (PHSA). The Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act (B...
The most senior FDA executives went public with their worries, frustration even, we suspect, impotence regarding the plethora of stem cells...
Kern Singh, M.D. is advancing the science of spine with the establishment of the MISSG. New research suggests that we need to look deeper in...
A private Brazilian insurance group claims U.S. orthopedic and other implant device makers and the U.S. government allegedly violated the Fo...
OK, everyone agrees tenodesis is the way to go for TSA. But with no prospective, randomized clinical trials regarding the long head of the b...
Excellent debate this week. While both debaters agree that metal backed shoulder implants fail, the battle lines are clearly drawn when it c...
In this new era of cost containment in medicine, adding over $1,000 to the cost of a procedure sounds fiscally irresponsible. A group of new...
A new concussion model developed by Gretchen Thomsen, Ph.D., of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los An...
Doctors and patients report rushes for procedures as worries over ACA overhaul spike.
According to their colleagues, these are the leading orthopedic hand surgeons in North America. Whether handling the wrist, elbow, or hand,...
Peachtree Orthopedics is the second orthopedic clinic in Atlanta to fall victim to TheDarkOverlord hacking group in 2016. With over half a m...
This is a very challenging problem. Young people with severe shoulder problems. Arthroplasty or arthroscopy? In this debate, the nuances are...
All-poly tibia is a very cost effective alternative and, says David Lewallen, M.D., should be part of every knee surgeon's armamentarium. BU...
Familiar pain meds are associated with hearing loss in women! Houston Methodist is sporting a new ortho biomechanics lab, complete with stat...
Seven months after the DOJ filed a lawsuit to stop the $37B Aetna-Humana merger, along with a complementary Anthem-Cigna merger, a district...
A decade-long legal battle between Zimmer Biomet, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ended in a g...
Renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jamie Alexandra Dale is seeking justice and $31 million after she was attacked and left for dead by her ex-b...
Which companies will increase shoulder and foot/ankle market share in 2017. In mid-December we received a flashlight into the opaque future...
It's Donald Trump's world in Washington. The Boss is driving agendas now and here's the absolutely very latest. The ACA is first up. But the...
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Tom Price is in charge of implementing President-elect Trump's promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. He faces a 2,...
It's not a revolution, but it is changing orthopedics. 3D printing produced the fastest new product launch in Stryker Spine's history. It al...
This week's Orthopaedic Crossfire® debate tackles the sometimes contentious subject of patella resurfacing. Jess Lonner says it is rarely, i...
NASS new guidance document regarding bone growth stimulators for spine fusion brings clarity to an often confusing gaggle of products and in...
To tourniquet or to not tourniquet, that is the question. Dickey Jones says "Let it Bleed". Keith Berend fights mightily to defend a near de...
RBC's excellent spine surgeon survey, now in its eighth year, was released a couple of weeks ago and it provided many insightful, even surpr...
Robots, 3D printing and clever strategies for navigating the spinal anatomy dominated this year's winning technologies. Clearly we are in an...
Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush is welcoming five new physicians! New research from Australia is re-examining an old vertebroplasty debate. Zen...
A new, data driven tool which cuts patient assessment time from weeks to, literally, 30 seconds is the hot new technology for professional a...
To stem or not to stem, that is the question when faced with a specifically complex primary or revision knee arthroplasty because of deformi...
Patient specific instrumentation: added cost with no proven value or an evolving technology to raise outcomes and improve OR efficiencies? T...
The hype surrounding Zimmer Biomet's Vanguard ID had us double checking with our surgeon friends. They told us this is actually a particular...
Is chemonucleolysis for painful lower back disc herniation returning? In the 1980s chymopapain achieved fairly wide spread use as a chemonuc...
Medical marijuana is the law in 23 states, 1.2 million marijuana cards have been issued and the two most common reasons for getting a medica...
In the exam room, OR, or the research lab, these are some of the top sports knee surgeons in North America.
New JBJS study offers an intriguing look at an extended release steroid injection for knee pain. Authors Bodick, Lufkin and Kumar report tha...
From the late 1990s to today, the number of annual deaths from preventable medical errors has increased roughly four-fold. What is going on?...
Acetabular bone loss and impaction grafting, for which patients is it good strategy, which patients is it a 'no-way' strategy and is it over...
Same day total knee arthroplasty is the siren song of large joint reconstruction. Michael Berend has performed over 2,000 knee arthroplastie...
Same day total knee arthroplasty is the siren song of large joint reconstruction. Michael Berend has performed over 2,000 knee arthroplastie...
Unicompartmental Knee or Total Knee? What's not to like about preserving natural kinematics, lower infection rate and good post op range of...
OK, it's a distal femoral peri-prosthetic fracture. Do you reach for the locking plates, the screws or the intramedullary nails? Or do you o...
Legendary private investment firm Stephens Group, LLC has made the leap into spine. Earlier this year another major private equity firm, Koh...
The Big Five private insurance carriers—you know who they are—want to consolidate into the Big Three. The U.S. Department of Justice has sue...
DePuy Synthes' new U.S. President Juan-José Gonzalez sat down with OTW recently and painted a picture of an invigorated DePuy Synthes. It's...