Educación sanitaria: información al paciente sobre los medicamentos

This monograph number 28 of the Esteve Foundation gathers the submissions and conclusions of the round table held on November 17 in Barcelona about patient healthcare training and drug information. Carlos Codina, from the Service of Pharmacy of the Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, moderated the round table and edited this monograph. The main…

2000

Diccionario de farmacología y temas afines

Volume number 27 of Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monographs is a translation into Spanish of the Dictionary of Pharmacology and Allied Topics, edited by Desmond Laurence and John Carpenter and published by Elsevier Science. This is doubtlessly a very useful tool that compiles definitions of 2000 terms and concepts of basic and clinical pharmacology, as well…

2000

Modelos experimentales de patología infecciosa

This monograph number 26 of the Esteve Foundation results from the round table held on May 12, 1999 in Barcelona about experimental models in infectious conditions. Coordinated by Drs. José María Miró and José María Gatell, from the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, this monograph includes an annex with the groups of investigators working on the…

2000

Investigación médico-farmacéutica en atención primaria. Una visión a través de las publicaciones de la REAP

This monograph compiles a series of articles published by members of the Primary Care Spanish Network (REAP), an internationally-focused entity created in 1987 to foster research in primary care professionals that gathers physicians, pharmacists, nurses and veterinarians under the same acronym. On the tenth anniversary of our organization, this book compiles some of the works…

1999

Transducción de señales como diana farmacológica

This monograph number 24 of the Esteve Foundation includes the works and debates originated at a scientific meeting held on June 11, 1998 in Barcelona. In this meeting, Spanish researchers from the fields of biochemistry, pharmacology and physiology discussed different points of view that stemmed from a common theory: the identification of events happening in…

1999

Variability in human drug response

The fact that each patient reacts differently to one given treatment is both an obstacle and a challenge for pharmacology. The eighth international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation included several aspects related to the diversity of responses to drugs. Geoffrey T. Tucker, from the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics of the University of…

1999

Pharmacokinetics: Development of an exquisitely practical science

Around 30 articles which contributed in an exceptional manner to the huge progress of pharmacokinetics are included in the second volume of Pharmacotherapy Revisited: an Esteve Foundation Series, under the title Pharmacokinetics: development of an exquisitely practical science. This time, the most relevant articles were selected by Patrick du Souich, from the Department of Pharmacology…

1999

Glosario de investigación clínica y epidemiológica

This monograph compiles more than 700 entries that offer a wide spectrum of concepts –ranging from pharmacology and statistics to ethics and epidemiology– in an attempt to provide a dictionary of research methodology to Research Committee and Clinical Research Ethics Committee members of very different origin, as well as to any healthcare provider with an…

1998

Problemas y controversias en torno al ensayo clínico

Clinical trials have become paradigms of the scientific method applied in the clinical field. Accordingly, this monograph number 22 raises some of the most problematic and controversial aspects regarding a method which, over the years, has increased its importance in present medicine. This method has added sophistication with the enforcement of Good Clinical Practice Regulations or Standard Operating…

1998