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…

English Grammar and Style - Volume 22, Issue

We have three articles in this edition. Pamela Haendler's contribution deals with the medical writer as a reviewer and quality checker. Because of their close involvement with all of the documentation on a project, the medical writers involved are…

Pharmacovigilance - Volume 32, Issue

Ecopharmacovigilance: A review of cause, impact, and remedies The Pharmacoviligance section in this issue opens the door to a very interesting topic: ecopharmacovigilance. This article is the result of a collaboration among volunteers of EMWA’s…

Medical Communication - Volume 22, Issue

Introducing the Medical Communication section: The wild side of medical writing! Hello and welcome to a brand spanking new section of Medical Writing. When the Editor of Medical Writing, Phil Leventhal, approached me to create a new section,…

How to shorten a text by up to 30% and improve clarity without losing information - Volume 26, Issue

What if everything you read was up to 30% shorter and more easily understood? What if everything you wrote was up to 30% shorter and more easily understood? Would that be a skill worth developing? Would  your employer or clients notice if your work…

Harmonising linguistic validation with AI: Precision, efficiency, and the human touch in patient-reported outcome translation - Volume 33, Issue

The surge in artificial intelligence (AI) prompts a reassessment of linguistic validation methods for patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures. The robust linguistic process, designed to adapt PRO measures for different cultures and languages, is…

In the Bookstores - Volume 28, Issue

Yellowlees Douglas is a con sult - ant on writing and organisations and an associate professor in the Center for Management Com - munication at the University of Florida, USA. Maria B Grant is a professor of ophthalmology at the University of…

So, you want to be a medical journalist? - Volume 26, Issue

What are the differences between medical journalism and medical writing? To find out, the authors reviewed several health-related publications and online resources, and interviewed two senior medical journalists. We learned that medical journalism…

Special section: Winners of the Geoff Hall Scholarship essay competition - Volume 24, Issue

The Geoff Hall Scholarships (GHSs) are given in honour of a former President of EMWA. Geoff was a very special person, an extremely valued member of EMWA, and a very good friend to many EMWA members. He firmly believed that the future of EMWA lies in…

Medical Communication - Volume 25, Issue

Poacher turned gamekeeper Medical writing is a collaborative process. Medical writers seldom write about their own research. Typically other people do the research, and the medical writer writes about it. Whether the writing is for a study report…