Gender could be associated with an increased risk of cartilage lesions in anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries, according to a release from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

A panel of spine experts is calling for surgeons to re-examine and reduce the use of recombinant bone morphogenic protein-2 in an editorial published in a special edition of North American Spine Society's The Spine Journal, which focuses on rhBMP-2.

Surgeons must remember age and gender differences when assessing deformity populations, according to a study published in Spine.