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Baptist Health Lexington (Ky.) plans to build a $1 billion outpatient surgery and medical campus in Hamburg, Ky., for which it will receive up to $12.7 million in tax breaks over 20 years, the Lexington Herald Leader reports.

Orthopedic surgeon Aaron Humphreys, MD, joined the staff at Providence Kodiak (Alaska) Island Medical Center, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reports.

Las Cruces (N.M.) Orthopaedic Associates will shut down permanently May 11 as a result of "unforeseen circumstances" potentially tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice announced May 4. 

The U.S. needs to perform 900,000 COVID-19 tests per day to safely phase out social distancing measures, according to projections released May 7 by Harvard's Global Health Institute. 

Charles Branch Jr., MD, executive director of the spine service line at Wake Forest Baptist Health System in Winston-Salem, N.C., says the pandemic has put some surgeries and technology purchases on hold for now, but there are big opportunities in…

Here are six key notes on spine and orthopedic device companies:

Johnson & Johnson settled a September 2019 lawsuit alleging that it unlawfully marketed its surgical mesh devices and hip replacement systems, West Virginia news outlet WDTV reports.

Here are six observations for spine surgeons on the COVID-19 pandemic and where the industry is headed in the next several months.

Walmart is moving deeper into the primary care market while physician practices across the country are struggling to stay afloat. 

Additive manufacturing has been hailed as the next industrial revolution for medical devices. It’s a means of production well suited for rapid prototyping and complex, personalized designs. Grand View Research in 2019 reported an estimated annual growth rate of 20.8…