Getting Your Foot in the Door - Volume 31, Issue

Contributors: Bruna Landeira (author), Ivana Turek (section editor) What piece of advice do aspiring medical writers tend to ignore? - Bruna Landeira Medical Writing. 2022;31(4)86-87. https://doi.org/10.56012/quyl2082

Trial Trivia - Volume 32, Issue

We all know there is nothing trivial about clinical trials. But let’s have some light fun and the try answering the short quiz about the topic.

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The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 32, Issue

EditorialSection Editor: Kimi Uegaki Growing and nurturing a grassroots sustainability team in a clinical centre Authors: Sarah Kabani, Virginie Chasseigne, Sihame Chkair Medical Writing. 2023;32(4):87–89. https://doi.org/10.56012/wynp1520

English Grammar and Style Revising medical writing Reasons not rules: Backtracking, pronoun-induced Part 2 – Single syntactic unit revision - Volume 24, Issue

This is the second of a series of three articles on pronouns that cause distraction by making the reader backtrack. In this article, we examine a technique for eliminating backtracking by making a single change to the construction of the sentence.…

English Grammar and Style: Revising medical writing Reasons not rules: Backtracking, pronoun-induced Part 3 - Double syntactic unit revision and syntactic position revision - Volume 24, Issue

This is the last of this series of three articles on pronouns that cause distraction by making the reader backtrack. In the first part of this article, we examine a technique for eliminating backtracking by making two changes to the construction of…

EMWA News - Volume 25, Issue

Baby alarm in the Social Media Team! The future of EMWA’s social media team is secured as we are expecting three babies. Utmost efforts have been taken to ensure they are equally distributed across the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn teams.Seriously,…

REACH chemical dossiers? Yes, please! - Volume 23, Issue

Medical writing knowledge and skills can be applied relatively easily to other areas of technical regulatory writing, with a bit of home study. One such area is in the compilation and write-up of REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and…

International teams: How to survive a long-distance work relationship among medical writers - Volume 31, Issue

How does a team of medical writers working in different countries navigate different time zones and cultures to get their work done remotely? In this interview, a team of six medical writers and one editor working at P95, a private research…

Remote meetings made easy: Good practices to keep in mind - Volume 31, Issue

One core medical writing skill is effectively communicating with the teams that will help us author our documents. With remote working playing an increasingly important role in our workforce, medical writers must adapt to this new reality. This…

Puns, promises, and metaphors: Medical device trade names - Volume 26, Issue

Abstract Medical writing covers not only drugs but also medical devices. This article looks at the lighter side of writing about medical devices. It shares observations about the vocabulary used and especially focuses on trade names. It also looks…