Debates & One-day meetings

Jem, Dallas, Liz and Yan are the presenters of Bang goes the theory, a popular science program that has three and a half million viewers and which is broadcast during BBC One’s primetime schedule. Each week, they conduct large-scale experiments with a spectacular staging. And three of them are scientists. “The presenters are flexible, they’ll…

The fourth series of debates on science journalism met on this occasion to discuss an unpublished study on coverage of scientific news by the major Spanish television networks. Paul Francescutti, director of the studyScientific Information in the News, conducted by the Group for Advanced Study of Communication at the King Juan Carlos University and sponsored by…

The objective of this debate held in Barcelona on 17 January 2007 was to gather a small group of people interested in different aspects relating to medicament treatment. The debate focused on four specific topics: the informed consent, the relationship between therapeutics and quality of life, the dilemma created by promising medicaments whose use is necessarily…

Woo-suk Hwang is a good example of universal news. Both his promising advances in therapeutic cloning and the further disclosure of the big lie made headlines around the world. The same media that, in May 2005, catapulted this South Korean scientist to the top charts of research had him listed down, a few months later, as…

In late 2005, The Lancet published a study where the use of beta-blockers in the treatment of high blood pressure was confirmed to increase the risk of stroke, and where its effectivity as first-choice therapy vs. other antihypertensive drugs was questioned. While this publication shook the ground of a treatment that had been widely accepted and applied by…

How can hospitals combine daily practice with research and teaching? What is the model to be followed? What kind of investigations should be carried out within the clinical environment? What are the barriers encountered by research in a healthcare center? These are some of the questions raised in this one-day meeting organized by the Esteve…

“A reflection on the position of biomedical journalism today.” This sentence could summarize the philosophy of the last meeting organized by the Esteve Foundation in collaboration with the Observatory of Scientific Communication of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. The meeting was held last 7th of October in S’Agaró, Girona, and was divided in three…