In the Bookstores - Volume 27, Issue

In an ideal world, the deluge of information that comes our way from the tax office, insurance com pa nies, lawyers, computer software compa - nies, and suchlike would be written in plain English. Sadly, the reader is often left with the impression…

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…

Regulatory Matters - Volume 34, Issue

Section Editors: Clare Chang, Zuo Yen Lee  Briefing documents: Facilitating health authority interactions Author: Clare Chang  Briefing documents, essential for facilitating interactions between pharmaceutical companies and health authorities…

From the Editor - Volume 32, Issue

Biotechnology – diverse as the colours of the rainbow Ask 10 people what “biotechnology” means and you will get 10 different answers. In this column, the Editor-in-Chief highlights the variety and breadth of the field and notes the important role…

From the Editor - Volume 32, Issue

As pharma companies strive for carbon neutrality, carbon accounting is now part of day-to-day business; the carbon footprint for each process, each step, and each stakeholder is closely scrutinised. Freelance medical writers and communicators as busi…

The Webscout - Volume 25, Issue

This issue of Medical Writing focuses on authors and authorship, but where, in fact, did the term “authorship” come from? The term first appeared in the early 18th century. In a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of…

The balancing act: Leading creative teams for clear, accurate science communication - Volume 33, Issue

Leading a team is inherently complex, requiring managers to juggle diverse organisational goals, meet superiors’ expectations, and cater to individual team member needs. The challenge intensifies when leading creative teams in a scientific environmen…

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 25, Issue

Communication, communication and even medical communication What is it about? Let’s start with the Wikipedia definition: “Communication (from Latin comm - ūnicāre, meaning ‘to share’) is the purposeful activity of information exchange between two…

Visual aids in patient-focused drug development and routine clinical practice - Volume 34, Issue

Effective medical communication is critical for patient consent, adherence to treatment, and improved health outcomes. Visual aids, such as infographics, diagrams, and charts, have proven invaluable for enhancing comprehension, particularly of…

To bias or not to bias in oncology clinical trials: Perspectives on design, endpoint selection, and reporting - Volume 32, Issue

Developing drugs for cancer is a process as complex as the disease itself. At the planning stage of a clinical trial for an oncology drug, thorough and careful consideration must be given to choosing the right study design and endpoints/estimands,…