Ensayos clínicos en intervenciones no farmacológicas

With the original title of Ensayos clínicos en intervenciones no farmacológicas (Non-pharmacological clinical trials) this round table was held in Bellaterra (May 24, 2000). It was chaired by Xavier Bonfil (Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona)and it was finally published as monograph number 30 (Monografías…

2000

Modelos experimentales de patologia infecciosa

The round table “Modelos experimentales de patología infecciosa” (Experimental models in infectious diseases) was held in Barcelona (May 12, 1999). Dr. José María Miró and Dr. José María Gatell (Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario Barcelona) chaired this meeting. All presentations and discussions were published in the monograph number 26 (“Monografías Dr. Antonio Esteve”, only…

1999

Educación sanitaria: información al paciente sobre los medicamentos

The round table Educación sanitaria: información al paciente sobre medicamentos (Health education: patient information on drugs) was held in Barcelona (November 17, 1999). Carlos Codina, from the Pharmacy Service at the Hospital Clínico y Provincial de Barcelona, chaired the round table in which several health professionals presented their experience around patient-communication and drug-information. All presentations…

1999

Transducción de señales como diana farmacológica

Several Spanish researchers from very close fields like biochemistry, pharmacology and physiology were invited to participate in this round table (Signal transduction as pharmacological target). Chaired by Drs. J.M. Baeyens (Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Universidad de Granada) and A. Zorzano (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Barcelona) this workshop was held in…

1998

Problemas y controversias en torno al ensayo clínico

Xavier Carné, from the Service of Clinical Pharmacology of the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, and Joan Costa, from the same department at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital of Badalona, moderated the round table titled Problems and controversies regarding clinical trials. This round table was held on October 16, 1997 at the Princesa Sofía Hotel…

1997

Fármacos y conducción de vehículos

The round table Medicinal products and vehicle driving was held on February 6, 1996 at the Princesa Sofía Hotel of Barcelona and was moderated by Francisco Javier Álvarez, from the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the University of Valladolid. The submissions dealt with the influence of medicinal products when driving and their involvement in…

1996

Bases de datos en farmacología y terapéutica

The arrival of computer-based databases and their influence in clinical research is the starting point of this round table held on November 23, 1995 at the Princesa Sofía hotel of Barcelona. Moderated by José Elguero, from the Medical Chemistry Institute of the CSIC (High Council for Scientific Research), and by Susana Pérez Gutthann, from the…

1995

Farmacología de los canales iónicos

The round table Ion channel pharmacology, organized by the Esteve Foundation and held on May 31, 1994, was moderated by A.G. García, from the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid. A total of eleven submissions, like nicotinic acetylcholine channels, oxygen-regulated potassium channels, or second-messenger-sensitive calcium…

1994

Tratamiento del dolor: del laboratorio a la clínica

The objective of the round table held on November 24, 1993 in Barcelona, further published in Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monograph number 16, was to diminish pain in drug-treated patients. Topics like the advances in the knowledge of the pathophysiology of pain, the physiological bases of unconventional analgesics or the problem of chronic or postoperative pain…

1993