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Medical Education - Volume 25, Issue

Medical education implies providing education or training of unbiased scientific or medical content. However, the reality is that medical education is now more a spectrum of educational activities that span from more promotional to purely…

The illusion of certainty and the certainty of illusion - Volume 25, Issue

Critical thinking is necessary to edit a scientific article. However, in addition to questions about the language, we can also question the assumptions, documentation, and implications of the research, in a process I call “analytical editing.” A…

Advances in the CRISPR-Cas9 system and gene therapy - Volume 32, Issue

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 is a genome editing tool that helps scientists modify the DNA of living organisms selectively and precisely. The discovery of this system has led to changes in the approaches to…

Rush to publication – What do we have to lose? - Volume 29, Issue

Just as the research and development of new drugs requires careful, often painstaking, adherence to empirical processes, the peer-review process and, indeed, the manuscript preparation process, are likewise laborious and time-consuming. The benefits…

Honing your proofreading skills - Volume 27, Issue

As part of their role, medical writers andeditors are expected to be excellentproofreaders with the ability to identify andremedy mistakes such as grammatical,spelling or formatting errors. This articledetails the steps that can be taken with…

Selling evidence over the counter: Do community pharmacists engage with evidence-based medicine? - Volume 22, Issue

Community pharmacy has been recently criticised for selling products which do not have a rational or robust evidence base. Available evidence suggests that pharmacists understand and are willing to embrace the concepts of evidence-based medicine…

Can you recognise the four main ways that English sentences can be structured? - Volume 26, Issue

Although scientific text typically has a more complex structure and vocabulary than fiction or text written for the general public, its message should still be clear and concise. One way to ensure this is to use correctsentence structure. If a…

AMWA – EMWA – ISMPP Joint Position Statement on Predatory Publishing - Volume 28, Issue

The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), and the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) recognise the challenges to scientific publishing being posed by predatory…

News from the EMA - Volume 31, Issue

EMA is putting in place special support to developers to replace, reduce and refine animal use for the development, manufacturing and testing of human and veterinary medicines. The Agency is promoting these three principles replace, reduce and…

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…

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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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