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…
2007
Although one generation apart, two renowned female scientists coincide in their optimism for the future. Margarita Salas and Fátima Bosch see it as a matter of time that women start collecting the fruit of seeds sown over the years, that is, leaving behind a situation where women’s preeminent presence in classrooms and research teams fails to translate into promotion…
2006
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…
2006
Dr. PJ Devereaux, from McMaster University (Ontario, Canada), teached a lecture about perioperative vascular medicine in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, organized by The Cochrane Collaboration with the participation of the Esteve Foundation. The meeting was held Friday 3rd November in Agencia Pedro Laín Entralgo.
2006
The 12th Esteve Foundation Symposium was held from 4-7 October 2006 in S’Agaro (Catalonia, Spain) on the topic Molecular Biology and Pharmacology of Tissue Repair with 21 speakers from 7 countries all over the world. It was chaired by Sabine Werner, from the Institute of Cell Biology of Zurich (Switzerland) and this was the program of the…
2006
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…
2006
Frequently, a technological advance in science leads to new ethical, moral and political challenges for society. Its implementation may lead to important cultural changes, not always in agreement with the established order and requiring a response by Law. Once the new policies have been enforced, however, new ethical problems arise which require new laws, always within…
2006
The Esteve Foundation attended the first one-day meeting on Drug R&D Training held in Spain to present its training offering, including initiation seminars on how Clinical Research Ethics Committees operate, or more recent ones on how to give oral presentations in biomedicine. The meeting was held on 6 June 2006 in Santiago de Compostela, organized…
2006The seventh edition of the seminars on How to write a scientific paper was held in Son Llàtzer’s Hospital, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), May 8-9 2006. These seminars on this topic are targeted to postgraduates in health sciences with the aim to improve their knowledge and skills to write and publish scientific papers. Dr. Esteve…
2006The Esteve Foundation initiates the new seminaries on how to perform oral presentations in biomedicine by holding its first two editions in Barcelona (December 15 and 16, 2005) and Madrid (March 23 and 24, 2006). As with the courses on how to write a scientific article –with five editions to its credit already– these seminaries…
2006