According to PubMed, one of the main platforms for the search of scientific publications in the field of health sciences, between February 1 and November 30, 2020, more than 80,000 works related to COVID-19 were published, in its vast majority, in scientific journals. Possibly never before has a specific public health problem caused scientific attention…
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65% of medical and nursing staff use Catalan regularly with patients. Regardless of the initial language, 73% adapt to the patient’s language. This is revealed by the preliminary results of the ULAS study (Linguistic Uses in Health Care) carried out by the Catalan Society of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Medicine (SocDEMCAT) and the Dr. Antoni…
2021The Catalan Society of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Medicine of Catalonia, the Dr. Antoni Esteve and the Catalan Society for the History of Medicine organized the online session The congresses of Catalan-speaking doctors and biologists. The past, the present and the challenges of the future, which took place on May 19, 2021 at the facilities…
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2021If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. The Dr. Antoni Esteve Foundation course How to improve your scientific presentations (with more than 25 face-to-face courses in Spain and France)…
2022Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish and Catalan.
2021The covid-19 pandemic has put on the table the importance of science journalism. I had never read, shared and talked so much about scientific reports as in recent months. So this year all indications are that the new edition of the PerCientEx Observatory will resonate more strongly , an initiative dedicated for years to making journalistic work on science, technology,…
2021In 2019, a group from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares published in the journal Nature relevant data around the involvement of the p38gamma protein in the development of the main type of primary liver cancer. This is hepatocellular carcinoma, which affects more than one million people a year worldwide and for which few pharmacological…
2021The Dr. Antoni Esteve Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) launch the third edition of Writing for the Biomedical Sciences, a new online course aimed at those who want to improve their skills in scientific writing in English. After two first editions that took place during the covid-19 pandemic, this third edition will take…
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