Medical Communications - Volume 25, Issue

Anyone working in pharmacovigilance (PV) will already have spent many months working their way through the ever changing updates and reforms to the Risk Management Plan (RMP), and the newly legislated RMP summary. Those not working in PV will…

Post-approval regulatory writing - Volume 23, Issue

Oncology and medical writers - Volume 21, Issue

Let me start this first editorial in an old journal with a new name by explaining why a medical writing journal has a theme issue on oncology and includes articles that are not directly related to writing. Medical writers write about research that is…

Medical writing in paediatrics: Children and the future - Volume 21, Issue

‘Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.’ Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 With the falling birth rate I wonder if they still are a third of the population, but there is no doubt that they are our…

From the Editor - On journalism, the Nobel Peace Prize, and the paths we travel by - Volume 30, Issue

The road to a Nobel Prize is not easy and journalist Maria Ressa can attest to that. I am both awed and inspired by her journey and find it fitting to pay tribute to her achievement in this issue on medical journalism. I must admit I am biased due…

Creative medical writing - An oxymoron? - Volume 27, Issue

Is “creative medical writing” an oxymoron? I sincerely hope not! Indeed, if this is the case I will be sorely disappointed, as it is a career I wish to pursue precisely because it may allow me to exercise some creativity. I enjoyed both the arts and…

Getting Your Foot in the Door - Volume 28, Issue

“How did you get into the medical writing field?” is a question I often hear. This is a fairly easy question for me to answer. I saw a job advert back in 2005 in Germany, I applied for the position, I got the job, and I became a medical writer…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 25, Issue

Coordination non parallelism is the lack of structural symmetry between coordinated sentence constituents that are intended to be equivalent in importance. A classic example of such non parallelism is “I love fishing, swimming, and to run.” In this…

Medical Journalism - Volume 22, Issue

From science writing to journalism: How ‘The Ghost Writer’ changed my life. How can a medical writer become a science journalist? That is the question I was asked to answer in an article inaugurating the Medical Journalism column of Medical…

The Webscout - Volume 23, Issue

I approached the theme of this issue by simply entering the term ‘health writing’ into a Google search. I expected to receive a bundle of pages dealing with writing for health magazines, wellness, and sports. And indeed, I got some of those,…