Dr.Antonio Esteve Foundation
TORRE ESTEVEPasseig de la Zona Franca, 109
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In 2003, information on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was widely diffused in the media. The alarm spread on a possible global pandemic worldwide, particularly since the World Health Organization (WHO) made the unprecedented decision to warn against traveling to Western cities like Toronto. At that moment, SARS changed from being an isolated fact in…
As part of the XVth Summer School of Public Health program, the Esteve Foundation organized a workshop entitled “Edit or Perish? The Challenges in Biomedical Edition”. It was chaired by Esteve Fernández (Institut Català d’Oncologia and Editor of the Spanish journal Gaceta Sanitaria). The workshop took place from September 21st to 22nd 2004, in Menorca (Balearic Islands,…
Sometimes the mass media need to be more accurate in the way how they reflect the important scientific findings. In order to discuss some aspects about the relationship between science and journalism, the Esteve Foundation developed a first meeting on Scientific Journalism in Barcelona (2002). At this time, human genome sequencing was the selected topic…