Latest reporting from the Health desk.
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Moffitt Cancer Center will open its 250,000-square-foot Discovery and Innovation Center on the Speros campus in Land O' Lakes on Oct. 22, adding a major research hub to a 775-acre development projected to create 11,000 jobs by 2033.
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Moffitt Cancer Center's mobile lung screening unit, the only one in Florida, stopped at the Angeline community in Land O' Lakes on World Lung Day, offering low-dose CT scans to at-risk residents as part of a push to close a screening gap that leaves 84% of eligible adults unscreened.
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Orlando Health opened a 10,865-square-foot freestanding emergency room on State Road 54 in Lutz on Sept. 15, offering 24-hour adult and pediatric care with 10 exam rooms, imaging and lab services.
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Dr. Louis Matherne IV, a general surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital-North in Lutz, has reached 1,000 robotic surgeries at the BayCare hospital.
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Moffitt Cancer Center will treat its first proton therapy patient at the Speros campus in Land O' Lakes on Monday, July 27, using one of roughly 40 Proteus ONE machines in the world, marking the latest milestone for the billion-dollar innovation campus off Ridge Road.
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