Recently, an important study exposed a shocking reality: one unnecessary spine surgery is performed every eight minutes in ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period ...

A LOCAL grandmother has appealed to the public for donations to help fund expenses for her daughter, who was recently ...

Southern California Orthopedic Institute added George Wahba, MD, according to a Dec. 2 Instagram post.

New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania had the highest overuse rates of spinal fusion/laminectomy ... is often the bigger determinant [of surgery] compared to what the evidence ...

Louise Whitehead said her family had been left devastated by her 31-year old daughter Rachael’s recent diagnosis.

“In spinal surgery, as with other fields of medicine ... including spinal fusion, laminectomy, and vertebroplasty, for which clinical trials have repeatedly shown lack of benefit for certain ...