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Dr. Josep Puig Alcantara received the 2011 Founders Award for Diagnostic Neuroradiology at this year’s meeting of the European Society of Neuroradiology for two publications that appeared in AJNR: J. Puig, S. Pedraza, G. Blasco, J. Daunis-i-Estadella, F. Prados, S.
Infuse controversy: If you have missed the blowup in the popular press about this topic, I have included a sampling of links for you to peruse. You can also just Google “spine journal” related to “news” and get many of
