Drug transport(ers) and the diseased brain

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a selective device that acts as a filter between circulating blood and brain tissues, in order to prevent the penetration of harmful substances into the brain. However, this benefit of preventing the entry of harmful substances becomes an obstacle to the efficacy of certain drugs that exert their therapeutic effect…

2005

Terapias no farmacológicas en atención primaria

That is a new volume of the series Esteve Foundation Notebooks which includes some lectures from VII Jornadas Científicas de la Red Española de Atención Primaria (REAP). This meeting was held in Cáceres (Spain), maig 31 and june 1, 2002. The meeting was organized to clarify the scientific basis of some non-pharmacological medical measures used in medical care.…

2004

Debates sobre periodismo científico. A propósito de la secuenciación del genoma humano: interacción de ciencia y periodismo

Science and journalism: two disciplines with a wide repercussion on society that parallel each other with different interests and objectives. However, when informational needs have them converge into one road called science journalism, their tortuous relationship becomes all the more evident. That is when two quite different languages –scientific and journalistic– cannot but come to…

2004