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For the greater good…Can agency competitors cooperate to advance medical publication practices? - Volume 24, Issue

The business of medical writing is competitive, but can it be cooperative? Is it time for agencies, which provide professional and ethical publication support to authors, to cooperate for the greater good of the medical publication profession?…

Regulatory pathways for development and submission activities - Volume 28, Issue

This article discusses how different regulatory requirements for a dossier requesting marketing authorisation for a medical drug affect the deliverables from development functions and the submission groups including medical writing. The content of…

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…

New treatments for type 2 diabetes - Volume 21, Issue

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has become a burden for society, and the incidence of the disease continues to increase. A range of therapies is available to control glycaemia in T2D patients; however, these drugs have undesired side-effects and there is a…

Registration and ethics committee approval for observational studies: Current status and way forward - Volume 26, Issue

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have always been recognised as the highest level of evidence in medical research. However, they cannot address the questions that one comes across in real-world clinical practice. Observational studies can answer…

Enhancing accessibility of study data: The development of a graphical abstract for lay summaries of clinical trial results - Volume 29, Issue

We describe the development of a graphical abstract for lay summaries of clinical trial results. The new graphical summary serves the same purpose for a lay summary as an abstract does for a scientific publication. Lay summaries are intended to…

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 24, Issue

Business models in the field of medical and regulatory writing – can you think of a more suitable topic for discussing: collaboration, team working, and sharing complementary skills across different native languages? In this issue of Medical…

In the Bookstores - Volume 21, Issue

Changes and developments in working lives during the next decades The author of the book The Shift, The Future of Work is Already Here, Lynda Gratton, is a professor of management practice at the London Business School. She has been nominated…

PhD student: A medical writer in the making! - Volume 27, Issue

With the ever-increasing stock of PhD holders and the diminishing number of permanent academic positions, alternative careers are in demand. Before the impostor syndrome marches in, these graduates need to realise that there can be a bright future,…

The Webscout - Volume 22, Issue

There are different definitions of the adjective ‘good’, e.g. morally excellent; satisfactory in quality, quantity or degree; of high quality; excellent; well-behaved; etc. as the web dictionary tells us. In ‘good pharma’ the meaning of ‘good’ is…

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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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