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Crowdpower in the era of ‘health 2.0’ - Volume 21, Issue

Members of the social web are increasingly banding together and using web 2.0 technologies to actively participate in their own healthcare (‘health 2.0’). This article gives an overview of how ‘crowdpower’ is impacting the field of healthcare, above…

Writing lay summaries: What medical writers need to know - Volume 27, Issue

Lay summaries are critical for building publictrust in clinical research and therefore forrecruiting patients. They are also an importantpart of efforts to improve data transparency.Due to new global regulations, lay summarieswill soon probably…

Graphing software for medical writers - Volume 23, Issue

The production of high-quality graphical figures of scientific data is an important aspect of medical writing, since the significance of the research findings can be lost to the audience if the data are presented poorly or inaccurately. This…

Journal Watch - Volume 22, Issue

The journal impact factor, approximately the average number of times that primary research papers published in 2 consecutive years are cited in the following year, is the most widely used method of assessing the quality of a journal. However, this…

Why clinical study reports really matter - Volume 27, Issue

Clinical study reports (CSRs) have so far served as documents for drug approval, but not as a data source for further use in research and post-regulatory decision-making. Sound post-regulatory decisions also require data other than those available…

Medical Communications - Volume 27, Issue

In a follow-up to the excellent article from Douglas Fiebig on how to use your review cycle effectively, this issue presents an extremely insightful article from Diana Radovan on how to help reviewers to communicate better with writers. Diana…

Document management systems for medical writing - Volume 28, Issue

Clinical trial data are rightfully protected by robust regulations; given these requirements and increasing demands from clients, a validated and compliant electronic document management system is now a necessity for established medical writing…

Abstracts from 44th EMWA conference Poster session - Volume 26, Issue

At this year’s Spring Conference in Birmingham, UK, EMWA held its second annual poster session. Six poster presentations were selected from abstracts submitted to the Educational Committee. Abstracts could be on any subject related to medical…

Teaching Medical Writing - Volume 26, Issue

Only one university in the USA offers an undergraduate degree programme in medical writing. Worldwide, fewer than 10 institutions offer advanced degrees (Table 1). Over the past 14 years, I have read and edited many research papers, grant…

Veterinary Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue

With veterinary treatment options becoming more diverse and advancing rapidly, the demand for veterinary medical writers is growing. Currently we are a growing group of vets in EMWA and we look forward to welcoming more colleagues to our…

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Medical Writing is a quarterly publication that aims to educate and inform medical writers in Europe and beyond. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, and all issues include feature articles and regular columns on topics relevant to the practice of medical writing. We welcome articles providing practical advice to medical writers; guidelines and reviews/summaries/updates of guidelines published elsewhere; original research; opinion pieces; interviews; and review articles.

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