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Moshe Shoham, PhD, received the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for inventing the Mazor Robotics' Renaissance spine system.

A Delaware jury handed down a $16 million favorable judgment to Johnson & Johnson's DePuy-Synthes in its patent infringement suit against Globus Medical, according to a Mass Device report.

An intervention including a hand hygiene program significantly reduced infection rates in a pediatric intensive care unit, according to a study in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

Administrative data did not identify all healthcare-associated infections that were identified from infection surveillance, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Wider access to Medicare claims data can aid improvement of healthcare quality and reduction of costs, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Center for Closing the Health Gap in Greater Cincinnati has honored Alvin H. Crawford, MD, with the Lifetime Achievement Award, according to an AAOS Now report.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Fred Davis, MD, will give a presentation titled "How to Grow Your Practice While Working with Emerging Systems of Care."

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 13, a roundtable of ambulatory surgery center industry experts discussed emerging business issues in spine surgery. The roundtable included orthopedic spine surgeon with Laser Spine…

Mir Ali, MD, has joined Morris, Ill.-based Rezin Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, according to a News Tribune report.

At the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, Fred Davis, MD, president and co-founder of ProCare Systems,, presented his view on the importance of measuring clinical outcomes in pain management-driven ASCs.