Jumping over and through the obstacles: Navigating the freelance landscape - Volume 32, Issue

This article explores the major challenges and strategies for succeeding as a freelance medical writer. It covers several topics, including finding enough work, managing heavy workloads, ensuring document quality, and carving out time for…

Reporting non-interventional post-authorisation safety studies (NI-PASS) - Volume 26, Issue

Post-authorisation safety studies (PASS), whether interventional or, more commonly, non-interventional (NI), can be used by entities such as the European Medicine Agency´s Pharmacovigilance and Risk Assess ment Committee to oblige drug companies to…

Regulatory Matters - Volume 30, Issue

Calling all medical writers:

Focus your writing with lean authoring

In today’s medical writing environment, authors are routinely faced with expedited timelines to write documents about highly complex studies with overwhelming amounts of data. Revi…

Covering a medical advisory board meeting and creating the report or publication: The role of the professional medical writer - Volume 25, Issue

Medical advisory board meetings are anintegral part of the healthcare and, inparticular, the pharmaceutical landscape.These meetings serve to identify knowledgegaps in a specific therapeutic area and tosuggest measures that could be implementedand…

How remote working can affect mental health: Work-life balance and meeting fatigue - Volume 31, Issue

When it comes to remote working, we often think about the many benefits this approach brings, such as being more flexible and productive, or improving our work-life balance. However, remote working without the right framework to profit from all…

Mentor vs. line manager: Differences and similarities - Volume 30, Issue

A good mentor may be a good line manager in a business setting and vice versa, but there are some key differences: mentors are more skill-oriented, while line managers are more goal-oriented. People who are both good line managers and mentors are…

#EMWATogetherApart - Volume 30, Issue

Dear colleagues, friends, and EMWA community, We hope you all had an exciting and educational 52nd EMWA conference. On behalf of the EMWA Executive Committee, I had great pleasure in welcoming you to the first Hybrid Opening Conference Day on…

Medical devices in the disclosure era and the role of medical writers - Volume 26, Issue

AbstractIncreased transparency is one of the provisions of the Clinical Trial and Medical Device Regulations. This article discusses the impact of transparency and disclosure on medical devices. Many modern-day medical devices are software-driven.…

Science writing workshops for AIDS vaccine researchers in Africa - Volume 22, Issue

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is a global scientific and advocacy organisation dedicated to ensuring an AIDS vaccine for use worldwide. In Africa, IAVI partners with seven research centres who conduct vaccine trials and studies.…

Trends in regulatory writing: A brief overview for aspiring medical writers - Volume 28, Issue

The EU regulatory system is undergoing a major overhaul. Several new pieces of legislation are now in place to enforce harmonisation and transparency in clinical trials while ensuring data security and individual privacy. New and aspiring medical…