Month: May 2012

Medicare demonstrations designed to improve health care quality and efficiency have largely failed to result in savings, according to the results of investigations summarized in a Congressional Budget Office brief. In the brief, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) noted an…

The International Paralympic Committee announced that two medal events in Para-Snowboard will be included in the Alpine Skiing Program at the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. This is the first time that Para-Snowboard will be included in the Paralympics,…

Being cut off from work email significantly reduces stress and allows employees to focus better, according to a study by University of California, Irvine and US Army researchers. “We found that when you remove email from workers’ lives, they multitask…

Higher rates of wheelchair breakdowns that require repairs are being reported by wheelchair-dependent patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), according to a study published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The researchers analyzed data from an ongoing…

Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. has completed enrollment for the INSTRIDE investigational device exemption clinical trial studying the effectiveness of its WalkAide System in the rehabilitation of stroke victims, according to a company press release. The study will compare the use…

Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. announced net sales of $218.1 million for the first quarter of 2012, an increase of $17.7 million, or 8.8%, from the first quarter of 2011, according to a company press release. The sales increase was a…

Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock have found that injections of a patient’s own stem cells may help people suffering from peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a study recently published in Molecular Therapy. The study is the second stage of a three-stage…

SPS announced that Eric Fuller, MBA and Bill DiNapoli will join the SPS management team, according to a company press release.     Eric Fuller     Bill DiNapoli Fuller has more than 17 years of experience in sales and…

Allied Orthopedics, Inc. announced that it has moved its Hialeah, Fla. patient care facility to Miami Lakes, Fla. The new facility will accommodate the company’s current staff and enable further expansion for future growth, according to a company press release.…

The Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center announced that John T. Brinkmann, CPO/L, MA and Nydia Marzán-Harding, CPO/L will be joining the faculty as full-time members. Marzán-Harding earned her undergraduate degree from the Florida Institute of Technology and received her certification from…