In addition to its fixed activities, the Esteve Foundation cooperates with other institutions in the performance of different projects. While these activities are not included in customary references, they are usually published by other means to ensure disclosure.

Special collaboration: 10th LatinCLEN Congress. The Clinical Epidemiology and its applications (2007)

The Esteve Foundation contributed to this congress held in Barcelona, organized by the LatinCLEN networks (focusing on clinical epidemiology) and the Iberoamerican Cochrane (focusing of systematic reviews). The meeting was held on 13-17 June 2007 at the Casa Convalescència of Barcelona’s Hospital de la Santa Creu i de Sant Pau.

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Collaboration witth the Cochrane Center: Current challenges of research in perioperative vascular medicine (2006)

Dr. PJ Devereaux, from McMaster University (Ontario, Canada), teached a lecture about perioperative vascular medicine in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, organized by The Cochrane Collaboration with the participation of the Esteve Foundation. The meeting was held Friday 3rd November in Agencia Pedro Laín Entralgo.

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Summer course ‘Bioethics today: unresolved questions’ with the University of Barcelona (2006)

Frequently, a technological advance in science leads to new ethical, moral and political challenges for society. Its implementation may lead to important cultural changes, not always in agreement with the established order and requiring a response by Law. Once the new policies have been enforced, however, new ethical problems arise which require new laws, always within…

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Special Collaboration: IV Meeting of Ethics Committees for the Research in Spanish Universities (2005)

The yearly meeting of the Ethics Committees of the Spanish universities was held in November 2005. This edition, held at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid, helped consolidate these meetings (four already: Sitges 2002, Murcia 2003, Granada 2004 and Madrid 2005). Again, the Esteve Foundation contributed to this initiative, ultimately intended…

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Special collaboration: Symposium ‘Chemistry, Medicine and Crime: Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787-1853) and his times’ (2004)

The Esteve Foundation supported the Symposium “Orfila and his times” that it was held in Maó (Minorca) on the 19th-20th March 2004. It aimed to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of Mateu J. Bonaventura Orfila (1787- 1853), a very relevant toxicologist and chemist, and the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris…

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