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Globus Medical Partners with the UK’s NHS to provide hospitals with surgical robotic navigation technology
The NHS and Globus Medical have partnered to provide state-of-the-art robotic navigation technology for spinal surgery to NHS hospitals across the United Kingdom. This partnership will allow NHS Trust hospitals
Dr Brian Fiani provides a glimpse into minimally invasive spine surgery
Dr Brian Fiani is recognised as a world-renowned Ivy-League fellowship-trained Neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital with sub-specialty focus on minimally invasive spinal surgery. Minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) is
Surgeon in Focus with Serena Hu
Serena S. Hu is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, CA. Dr Hu’s research interests include prediction and prevention of metastatic fractures of the
GIRFT webinars help tackle demand for outpatient appointments
Download new guidance and sign up for the GIRFT webinar series Registration is now open for a series of GIRFT webinars, showing trainee, surgical and medical colleagues how to make
Experts encourage earlier intervention for some infants with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most common form of neurodegenerative disease in childhood, is caused by defects in the SMN1 gene. SMA patients potentially benefit from three recently approved disease-modifying therapies. These
New leaflets from GIRFT for clinicians and patients advise on the use of MRI scans for spinal conditions
New leaflets which aim to reduce unwarranted variation in requests for MRI scans for spinal conditions have been issued in a collaboration between the BestMSKHealth Collaborative programme and Getting It
Cavendish Medical column: Have you received your pension statement?
Dr Benjamin Holdsworth on why you should request it Annual pension statements for 2021/22 are now available from the NHS Pensions Agency and are essential to help you establish whether
New research calls for all health and care staff to be trained in AI
All health and care staff should receive training in artificial intelligence (AI) with additional specialist training for those who use AI tools in clinical practice, according to new research published
Treatment for back pain: 84% increase in success rate
If a therapy for chronic back pain is tailored specifically to a patient’s individual requirements, the chances of success are far greater than with standard forms of treatment. Accompanied by
