Monographs | Dr. Antonio Esteve's Fundation

May302019

Perspectiva de género en medicina

María Teresa Ruiz Cantero

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Nov142018

The role of humanities in the teaching of medical students

Carlo Orefice / Josep E. Baños

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Nov262014

The importance of language in the biosanitary environment

B. Gutiérrez Rodilla / F. A. Navarro

The role of language in health science is of utmost importance in the everyday work of health professionals, and deserves much more attention than it usually receives. Hence, in this new monograph of the Esteve Foundation, 14 experts address the different fields of health in which language plays a decisive role. Communication between research colleagues,…

Apr162012

Nuevas perspectivas en inmunoterapia

M. Juan

Stimulating the immune system for therapeutic purposes has become one of modern medicine’s most important challenges. The possibilities offered by immunotherapy are wide ranging, from the treatment of cancers and other diseases to the prevention of infections such as HIV or malaria. In a new Esteve Foundation Monograph, eleven experts from different fields and institutions…

Aug162010

Atención al paciente oncológico desde la perspectiva de enfermería

RM Torrens

Although cancer is a priority in scientific forums and meetings, the issue has rarely been addressed from the perspective of one of the groups most involved in cancer patient care, nurses. This new monograph by the Esteve Foundation reflects the experience of different health professionals in the treatment of cancer patient, focusing primarily on the…

Apr162008

Aportaciones de los estudios funcionales a la investigación farmacológica básica

A. Badia

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Aug162007

La proyección social del medicamento

JE. Baños y J. Bigorra

A society like ours, where drug self-consumption is increasing steadily, must analyze the relationship between these drugs and the population, as well as its possible consequences. Social pharmacology is the discipline that analyzes the impact of social and cultural factors on the use and effects of drug products. This is precisely the content of this…

Jun162005

La investigación en un entorno asistencial. Algunas reflexiones y ejemplos

S. Videla / F. Bosch

The problems and lacks encountered daily by professional researchers are many. Accordingly, convincing the new generations of physicians to combine healthcare activities with research duties seems to be no easy task. However, the Esteve Foundation organized a round table in July 2004 where physicians with years of combining basic research and clinical practice were to…

Apr162003

Aspectos básicos y clínicos sobre la neurobiología de la adicción

C. De Felipe

This Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monograph results from the round table held in the month of February at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Edited by Carmen de Felipe, from the Neuroscience Institute of the University Miguel Hernández of Alicante, this work gathers twelve articles on the neurobiology of addiction, corresponding to the submissions of twelve Spanish…

Mar162001

Ensayos clínicos en intervenciones no farmacológicas

X. Bonfill

Number 30 of Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monographs results from the round table held on May 24, 2000 in Bellaterra and dealing with clinical trials in non-pharmacological interventions. Edited by Xavier Bonfill, from the Service of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health of the Hospital de Sant Pau, this monograph gathers all the contributions, discussions and conclusions…

Sep162000

Aspectos conceptuales del ensayo clínico: una revisión a través de artículos publicados en Medicina Clínica (1990-1999)

F. Bosch

Under the title Conceptual aspects of a clinical trial. A review through articles published in Medicina Clínica (1990-1999), volume number 29 of the Esteve Foundation gathers the most significant articles about different aspects of clinical trials, thus giving an overview of their situation in Spain during the 1990-1999 period. Full document Full PDF F. Bosch…

Jun162000

Educación sanitaria: información al paciente sobre los medicamentos

C. Codina

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…

May162000

Diccionario de farmacología y temas afines

DR. Laurence / JR. Carpenter

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…

Mar162000

Modelos experimentales de patología infecciosa

J.M. Miró / J.M. Gatell

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…

Dec161999

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…

Oct161999

Transducción de señales como diana farmacológica

J.M. Baeyens / A. Zorzano

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…

Jun251998

Glosario de investigación clínica y epidemiológica

J.E. Baños / C. Brotons / M. Farré

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…

May251998

Problemas y controversias en torno al ensayo clínico

X. Carné / J. Costa

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…

Nov251997

Medicina y medios de comunicación. Traducción al español de una serie publicada en ‘The Lancet’

Medicine and the Media gathers a series of articles published in The Lancet about the conflicts that arise when the two disciplines –science and journalism– converge and lead to sometimes difficult and unsatisfactory relationships. The aspects analyzed were: news value, sources and the issue of scientific fraud, the influence and power of the media, how medical TV programs…

Oct251997

Traducción y lenguaje en medicina

FA. Navarro

The richness of the medical language is too often disturbed by scientific writing and translation. Dr. Fernando Navarro, a trained clinical pharmacologist, has wide experience in the difficult task of translation. The monograph Translation and Language in Medicine gathers some of the articles published by Dr. Navarro in Medicina Clínica, which relate to linguistic conflicts that often impair…

Nov251996

Fármacos y conducción de vehículos

F.J. Álvarez

The harmful effects of alcohol on driving are a recurring topic. In fact, the prevention measures applied by the authorities are exclusively directed to the detection of this substance in drivers. Medicinal products are of course not the main factor for accidentability. However, the availability of drugs that do not interfere with driving is of…

Sep251996

Bases de datos en farmacología y terapéutica

J. Elguero / S. Pérez Gutthann

The apparition and use of computer databases meant a revolution at all levels of pharmacological research, from the molecular design of medicinal products to the assessment of their aspects in human populations, not to mention basic aspects like the fast, convenient access to results of already performed investigations. Database functions and advantages in pharmacology and…

Oct251995

Farmacología de los canales iónicos

A.G. García

This monograph, resulting from a round table held in Barcelona in 1994 and including 11 submissions, is focused on ion channels, their pharmacology and their therapeutic potential for the prevention, relief or cure of diseases. The meeting and this publication included the contributions of scientists involved in medical chemistry and in the development of new…

Oct251994

El tratamiento del dolor: del laboratorio a la clínica

R. Carlos / J.E. Baños

Modern medicine usually dedicates more effort to curative treatment than to the relief of the symptoms that accompany the disease. An insufficient treatment leading to unnecessary suffering is frequently the case. Several basic scientists, clinical researchers and doctors gathered for a round table discussion organized by the Esteve Foundation in 1993 to foster dialog between…

Jun251994

Investigación sobre cáncer en España de la biología molecular a la clínica

G. Capellá / M. Hernández Bronchud / F. Lluís

A number of Spanish cancer researchers from different disciplines held a round table in 1993, organized by the Esteve Foundation, where an overview of the type of oncologic research performed in Spain was obtained. The topics developed included multiple aspects: epidemiology, intracellular mechanisms of cell proliferation, applications of molecular biology to clinical diagnosis, experimental models,…

Nov251993

Terapéutica y calidad de vida

M.V. Camps / M. Pérez-Oliva

How to improve the patient’s quality of life (QOL) is the purpose of this publication and the round table organized by the Esteve Foundation in 1992. The different submissions presented evidenced the difficulties involved in judging and assessing the patient’s QOL, and therefore not only the physician’s opinions but also those of psychologists, pharmacologists, epidemiologists…

Nov251992

El ensayo clínico como tarea cooperativa

A. Bartlett / M.A. Serrano / J. Torrent

The intention of this Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monograph is to vindicate clinical trials as essentially cooperative tasks involving a multitude of people from very different disciplines, as compared to the scientist’s individuality –which is more and more a matter of the past. Indeed, a clinical trial with a given drug is not a task performed…

Oct251991

Periodismo científico. Un simposio internacional

In 1990, the science team of the newspaper La Vanguardia and the Esteve Foundation decided to organize an international symposium where the relationships between science, press and society would be approached, particularly the problems arising between journalism and biomedical sciences. Obviously enough, today’s communication is a key element in scientific research and reaches not only specialized journals…

Jun251991

Metodología del ensayo clínico

F. García Alonso / O.M. Bakke

Clinical trials are experimental studies performed in patients or healthy volunteers to assess the efficacy and safety of drugs or other therapeutical procedures. It differs from clinical observation in data collection and in the need for comparison of results with another reference or control group. As from 1982, the authorization by the Spanish General Direction…

May251991

Biotecnología de aplicación farmacéutica

R. González-Duarte

The advances in biotechnology are due to the better knowledge of the nature of live organisms and to the technological capacity developed to alter their genetic information. The aim of the round table organized by the Esteve Foundation in 1989 and of this publication was to analyze the scientific development of biotechnology in the pharmaceutical…