Your professional association: A great way to expand your skills and advance your career - Volume 22, Issue

Many medical writers and translators are not members of professional associations. While online networking is clearly accepted as a key element for success in business, the benefits of joining associations are still not obvious to all, even though…

Essential investments in optimising clinical research for rare disease - Volume 34, Issue

The complexities associated with clinical trials for (ultra) rare diseases include regulatory and logistical hurdles and the challenge of building trusting relationships with health authorities, patients, and clinicians. Significant obstacles…

News from the EMA - Volume 32, Issue

Section Editor: Anuradha Alahari Medical Writing. 2023;32(4):64–68. https://doi.org/10.56012/oknc4756

Regulatory Public Disclosure - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editor and Author: Sam Hamilton   Medical Writing. 2024;33(3):95–100. https://doi.org/10.56012/vhdv1639

Pharmaceutical medical writing competencies: Comparing self-perception with employers' expectations - Volume 21, Issue

In the recently published ‘Pharmaceutical Medical Writing Competency Model’, a group of medical writers describes the knowledge, skills, and behaviours they considered essential for successful medical writers. Thus, this model represents a list of…

Preventing biomedical research waste - Volume 31, Issue

An estimated 85% of efforts in biomedical research are wasted due to inefficiencies. This wastage represents a global financial loss of greater than US$200 billion per year, a barrier to practicing evidence-based medicine, and a considerable amount…

Project management in medical publication writing: A less explored avenue in pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organisations - Volume 25, Issue

Drug development forms the core of the pharmaceutical industry. Medical writing is a key function in pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organisations that works on scientific publications and regulatory dossiers. Regulatory writing…

Out on our own - Volume 25, Issue

Editorial This is the last OOOO edited by Kathryn White and Alistair Reeves, with Sam Hamilton in the background. After many years all three stepped down from their freelance advocate activities at the conference in The Hague, and have handed the…

Medical Writing Education - Volume 22, Issue

Carbon footprint of EMWA activities: A first estimate - Volume 32, Issue

The Sustainability Special Interest Group (SUS-SIG) of EMWA was established in 2020 to support the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development from the perspective of a not-for-profit professional organisation for medical writers and…