Author: Terense Kemp

  BOC International headquarters in Owings Mills, Md. The Board for Orthotist/Prosthetist Certification, International (BOC) has moved its headquarters from Columbia, Md., to Owings Mills, Md. The new address is 10451 Mill Run Circle, Suite 200, Owings Mills, MD 21117.…

School children across the world may speak different languages but there is one experience an estimated 90% of all students share: wearing a backpack. Researchers from the University of San Diego, California School of Medicine say those students also share…

Families with disabled children are struggling to keep food on the table, a roof over their heads, and to pay for needed health and dental care. But according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel…

What is the impact on the O&P profession and other Medicare providers and benefits?

Patients in the United States made an estimated 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments in 2006, an average of four visits per person per year, according to new health care statistics released by the…

Limb banks are streamlining the overseas O&P mission. O&P Business News spoke to key players in this process for the first article in a two-part series.

  Dave McGill Geoge Breece, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP), recently announced additions to the association’s board of directors. Dave McGill, Esq. and Rhonda Turner, PhD, were elected to the board…

Understand how medical information is gathered and used so that you can save money on life, disability and long-term care insurance.

Armed with a laid-back attitude and a new bicycle courtesy of the Challenged Athletes Foundation, Allison Jones ramps up for the 2008 Paralympics.

Avoid stirring up a recipe for disaster. Educate yourselves and your staff on the ingredients that help make a multigenerational workplace a success.