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First steps towards helping the sub-Saharan continent to cope with the growing number of patients who urgently require specialized spine care has begun!
The AOSpine Program for International Resource-based Education (ASPIRE) project aims to reach out to spine professionals in sub-Saharan Africa. The mission of the ASPIRE project is to improve spinal healthcare, to ultimately benefit the local population.

Discography may accelerate disc degeneration

Eugene J Carragee of Stanford University and colleagues presented a multicenter study at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS).

The new myAOSpine is out now!

myAOSpine is a bi-annual AOSpine community affairs magazine which enlightens, engages, and entertains more than 3,500 members with strong membership oriented stories from around the world.

16th IMAST, Vienna, Austria

The 16th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST) is scheduled to be held, 15–18 July, 2009. IMAST is being organized at the Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria.

Michael Fehlings awarded the prestigious Olivecrona award

Michael Fehlings, MD has been selected for the prestigious Olivecrona award, announced by the Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital.

A case of negligence?

Scientific American, a popular science magazine, published magazine in the United States has reported what is said to be one of the longest running and widest ranging medical research fraud on 10 March, 2009.