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
The eighth international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation, Variability in human drug response, was held on October 7-10, 1998 in Sitges. Aspects related to the variability in drug response were discussed. As shown in this symposium, the fact that each patient is different when given one same treatment entails both an obstacle and a…
1998
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
This workshop was held in Sitges (Barcelona, Spain) on May 11-12, 1998. It was organized by both, the Esteve Foundation and the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Robert H. Fletcher and Suzanne W. Fletcher from Boston (Co-Editors of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and Ex-Editors de Annals of Internal Medicine) chaired this meeting which was…
1998
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
As antidoping controls have gained wide repercussion in the media on account of their performance in great contests, much talk has ensued regarding the misuse of drugs in sports. However, the objective of this seventh international symposium, organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 2-5, 1996 in Sitges, was not to approach such a mass-…
1996
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
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
A small 3-day workshop sponsored by Cornell University Medical College and funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., USA, and the Esteve Foundation of Barcelona, Spain, was held on May, 25-27 1995. M. M. Reidenberg (USA), a member of the WHO Committee on the Use of Essential Drugs, organized and chaired…
1995
Professionals in the field of sexual pharmacology research gathered at the international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 9-12, 1994 in Majorca with the purpose of seeking answers to related issues. How can pharmacology contribute to clinically improve a number of existing sexual problems? What are the repercussions on the sexual function secondary…
1994
