Endoscopic spine surgery is pushing past being a novelty in 2025. In the first half of 2025, hospitals including Martinsburg, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center, Cleveland-based ...

From new FDA nods to debuts, here are six key developments in spine and orthopedic biologics. 1. Physicians at Huntington (N.Y.) Hospital, an affiliate of Northwell Health, performed the first BEAR ...

NBA playoff rounds, three major athletes faced Achilles tendon injuries, on top of additional injuries occurring earlier in the season, according to a June 25 report from ESPN. Achilles tears are ...

The Philadelphia 76ers are optimistic that center Joel Embiid will return to play for the 2025 to 2026 season following his second knee surgery in under two years, according to a June 26 report from ...

Long Branch, N.J.-based Monmouth Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health hospital, is celebrating 80 years of its orthopedic surgery residency program. The program is the oldest orthopedic surgery ...

Greg Merrell, MD, of Indianapolis-based OrthoIndy was named as the next editor-in-chief of The Journal of Hand Surgery, the practice said June 25. Dr. Merrell’s clinical focus includes wrist arthritis ...

OssDesign’s Catalyst nanosynthetic bone graft putty saw an 88.4% fusion rate in highly complex spine patients, according to results from its Propel study. The data comes from the first 108 patients in ...

Aclarion has enrolled its first patients in a clinical trial designed to reduce back pain at the Texas Back Institute in Plano. The chronic low back pain randomized independent trial study (CLARITY) ...

Daniel Choi, MD, performed the first Barricaid annular closure implantation with an endoscopic approach, Intrinsic Therapeutics said June 26. Dr. Choi used Amplify Surgical’s dualPortal system for the ...

The first cases using Velys Spine were completed at Mayo Clinic Rochester (Minn.) and Medical City Frisco (Texas), Johnson & Johnson Medtech said in a June 26 LinkedIn post. Isador Liberman, MD, and ...

University of Iowa Health Care opened its new orthopedic-focused hospital in North Liberty. Now, its chair is stepping down. J. Lawrence Marsh, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Iowa in ...

Memorial Hospital has added the first FDA-cleared, mixed-reality navigation system for total hip replacements, according to a June 25 report from South Florida Hospital News. Orthopedic surgeon Edward ...