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Regulatory Matters - Volume 26, Issue

Medical writers are often involved in the preparation of submission documents such as clinical overviews and clinical summaries. The submission of the application (or, in the case of drugs already approved, a variation or supplement) is an important…

Making the leap: Transparency requirements for clinical trials moving from one regulatory framework to another - Volume 33, Issue

This article discusses the fast-approaching deadline for sponsors to transition ongoing clinical trials in the EU/European Economic Area from the Clinical Trials Directive 2001/20/EC to the Clinical Trials Regulation 536/2014. In particular, the…

Getting Your Foot in the Door - Volume 25, Issue

Welcome to Getting Your Foot in the Door or GYFD for short, the latest addition to MEW’s regular sections. It all started at the EMWA 2015 autumn meeting in The Hague. Derek Ho met up with the EMWA Executive Committee (EC) to talk about his idea of…

European network for health technology assessment – EUnetHTA - Volume 22, Issue

In 2004, health technology assessment (HTA) was recognised as a ‘political priority’ by the EC and Council of Ministers, which led to a call to establish an effective and sustainable European network for HTA (EUnetHTA). The result was the…

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 30, Issue

Crofting is a sustainable way of living It is cold and grey, and the wind is strong this morning, carrying a dash of rain. The crofter wakes up early. There is a sick sheep in need of care. A cow should give birth at any moment. There is a storm…

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…

Carbon footprint of clinical trials: a high-level literature review - Volume 31, Issue

Thousands of clinical trials are conducted globally each year. Yet, little is known about their environmental impact. This paper presents the results of a high-level literature review of the carbon footprint of clinical trials. Five papers were…

English Grammar and Style - Volume 23, Issue

Pronouns are useful referents (i.e. the thing doing the referring) to avoid repetition of words (usually nouns). Although personal pronouns (he, she, and I, in particular) are infrequent in medical writing, the neutral ‘it’ and the demonstrative…

Medical Communications - Volume 22, Issue

Meeting reports are an aspect of ‘medical’ and other technical writing that has had little discussion. The following might be of interest to medical writers asked to provide rapid, reliable, objective reports of various types of meeting. The United…

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…

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