More military veterans are now reporting back pain than in the past, among both front-line troops as well as other deployed personnel, according to a report published in the Journal Sentinel.

California Pain, based in Freemont and Pleasanton, has partnered with Boost Medical, which will now oversee various aspects of the practice's business management.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers. He is also a clinical professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at the University of Louisville, and he practices anesthesiology and pain management at several surgery centers.

A former patient from the UC San Diego Center for Pain Medicine donated $2 million to the center, according to a Fox report.

Phoenix-based Arizona Pain Specialists has launched a program to provide same-day appointments and free consultations for patients after an automobile accident.

Medical device company NanoVibronix has named KevMed the United States distributor for PainShield, a hands-free, wearable therapeutic ultrasound device for patients with pelvic pain.

Ameritox will host a symposium in conjunction with the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians meeting.

The American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians is collecting donations for victims of Hurricane Sandy, which has stricken the East Coast over the past few weeks.

Vincent Tello, MD, joined Anesthesia Associates of St. Margaret's Valley Pain Clinic in Peru, Ill., according to a report from the Bureau County Republican.

A retrospective study published in Spine collecting data on patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis examined whether obesity impacted patient outcomes.