Richard N. Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, founder and president of South Sound Neurosurgery in Puyallup, Wash., recently conducted a study titled "A Comparison of the Safety of Lumbar Fusions Performed as Outpatient (<25-Hour Discharge) or Inpatient (>24-Hour Discharge) Procedures." He presented the paper at the North American Spine Society 2012 Annual Meeting in October.

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DePuy Synthes Spine announced new image guided instrumentation for two of its spine systems and entered into a new agreement with Brainlab last week.

Leadership in healthcare today is defined by several characteristics, and not every surgeon can be a leader among their peers.

Two spine surgeons discuss the amount of time their and their office staff spend on the phone with insurance companies every week.

The North American Spine Society has announced the winners of the 2012 Research Traveling Fellowship and Research Grant Awards.

The recent investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance into the surgeon/industry relationships, scientific publishing and marketing of Medtronic's bone morphogenic protein product InFuse was released earlier this week and confirms reports from the June 2011 issue of the North American Spine Society's The Spine Journal.

Two studies were presented at the North American Spine Society annual meeting that discussed how demographics impact treatment for spinal trauma.

DePuy Synthes Spine has launched the ACIS Anterior Cervical Interbody Spacer System for use during anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.