Unwilling to accept prevailing medical doctrine, Duke University Medical Center orthopedic surgeon Dr. Carl Basamania spent much of the last decade developing and testing a new approach to broken ...

Orthopedic surgeons David Ruch, MD, and Marc Richard, MD, completed the first wrist fixation surgery with the Acu-Loc NEXT System developed by Acumed.  The Acu-Loc NEXT System, which earned FDA ...

Durham City Council outlined a new partnership with Duke’s department of orthopaedic surgery to address gun violence and discussed the effects of National Institutes of Health and U.S. Agency for ...

Using a database of nearly 1 million Americans who underwent major joint replacement surgery, a team led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center have determined those surgical patients with ...

Duke Regional Hospital (Durham, N.C.). U.S. News & World Report rates this Magnet-accredited, 369-bed hospital high performing in hip replacement. It received the Joint Commission’s advanced ...

Although it typically affects older people, hip problems can plague young adults, athletes and children. In most cases, hip replacement is not an option. So a Duke surgeon has come up with a solution ...

Dr. Selene Parekh, a Duke foot doctor who started a foundation to provide foot and ankle care in India where the lack of specialists in this area leads to serious disabilities. He and a team of ...