In the Bookstores - Volume 22, Issue

The Spirit Level

Ever had a ‘ping’ moment? This book might have been mine. I'm not a natural pessimist, but Western society today seems less cohesive and people more materialistic, stressed, unhealthy, and unhappy than in times gone by. Wealth and s…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 29, Issue

In addition to subject-verb misagreement in grammatical number, a misagreement in number is common between a subject and other sentence constituents, which appears in the experimental and contextual sections of a journal article.

Measuring health outcomes: The foundation of contemporary healthcare decision-making - Volume 27, Issue

Healthcare professionals and patients are (or should be) interested in understanding the benefits of health care. We should be able to know the expected treatment benefits and to see quantifiable evidence that supports those expectations. Such…

Medical writing in the era of artificial intelligence - Volume 28, Issue

The increasing amount of data available together with advances in computer science are converting computers from simple tools that execute commands into self-taught, self correcting machines that make decisions. This is the beginning of the era of…

Anonymisation: A new challenge for medical writers - Volume 27, Issue

In its commitment to transparency, the EMA implemented Policy/0043 and Policy/0070 to make data accessible to all; however, this has given rise to the need for anonymisation of personal data in clinical reports. The analysis of the 64 submission…

The COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for digitalisation and remote working in Germany - Volume 31, Issue

Remote working is ideal for medical writers, but up until a few years ago, was not widely available to those looking for a remote position with a German employer. Even though Germany is a developed country, its digitalisation has long been lagging,…

Journal Watch - Volume 25, Issue

"From the Editor-in-Chief: Journal Watch is the re-birth of a previous column edited by Nancy Milligan. We are happy to welcome Hervé Maisonneuve, MD as the new Section Editor for Journal Watch. Hervé is a contributing editor for several scientific…

EMA releases the revised Good Pharmacovigilance Practices Module V – updated guidance on risk management plans - Volume 26, Issue

Recently, the EMA released the revised Module V – Risk Management Systems (Rev 2) of Good Pharmacovigilance Practices (GVP) accompanied by a revised version of the guidance on the format of the risk management plan (RMP) in the EU – in integrated…

Blockchain in healthcare, research, and scientific publishing - Volume 28, Issue

Data are being transmitted and stored on cloud-based networks, including clinical, research, and publishing data. These cloudbased systems often lack comprehensiveness, accessibility, interoperability, confidentiality,accountability, and…

Reports from the spring conference in Barcelona: 6th EMWA Symposium - Volume 27, Issue

We invited EMWA members to report on the medical device symposium and selected Expert Seminars during the spring conference in Barcelona, held in May 2018. We hope that this initiative will help to keep EMWA members up to date with our fast changing…