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Here are four professional sports teams who hired new sports medicine physicians in the past month.

Here are nine spine devices launched in 2019.

Here are six hospitals expanding spine and neurosurgeon programs.

Dusty Smith, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Gadsden, Ala.-based Riverview Regional Medical Center invented a new medical device, Sagittae, for spinal fusions, reports The Gadsden Times.

Peter Derman, MD, is a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon at the Texas Back Institute in Plano.

NuVasive launched Modulus TLIF-O, a porous titanium spine implant to be used in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions.

Catholic Health's physician network Buffalo, N.Y.-based Trinity Medical WNY added Buffalo Orthopaedic Group, according to a report in Buffalo Business First.

Eighty-seven former patients and family members have sued Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health over a 2017 infection outbreak at its Porter Adventist Hospital related to orthopedic and spine surgical instruments, according to a Fox 31 Denver report.

In August 2018, U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2018-2019 survey ranked New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery as the No. 1 hospital in the country for orthopedics, for the ninth consecutive year.

A team of Harvard researchers used machine learning to predict which patients undergoing a procedure for lower back pain should be observed for opioid dependence, reports AI in Healthcare.