It is a unique privilege to address the 50th annual meeting of the CNS during this first year of a new century and a new millennium. I owe recognition and thanks to many people for their overwhelming support. I thank my parents, Dr. and Mrs. Warren Barrow, and my grandmother, Mrs. Emma Pessina, for providing me with a nurturing environment, an education, and encouragement to pursue my career an...

In the past, female physicians, especially cardiologists, were a rarity. The first physicians were officially trained only at the end of the 19th century. In the last decades of the 20th century, the number of women in medicine increased tremendously; however, the number of female cardiologists has remained low, especially in invasive cardiology. The reasons include the invasive character of th...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the introduction of computer-aided prescribing helped reduce the administrative burden at primary care centers. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional design. SETTING Torreblanca Health Center in the province of Seville, southern Spain. From 29 October 2003 to the present a pilot project involving nine pharmacies in the basic health zone served by this health cen...