Science for all: Is it all about the publication of data, or beyond? - Volume 31, Issue

This article presents an overview of open access initiatives by researchers, journals, government bodies, and regulatory authorities. Open access initiatives are valuable to the scientific community and have increased the amount of clinical research…

Value of medical writing: The regulator's perspective - Volume 31, Issue

In 2020, the American Medical Writers Association established a working group to assess the value of the contribution of medical writers across the health sciences industry, including a subgroup tasked to gather data on the regulatory agency’s…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 32, Issue

Author: Michael Lewis Schneir Section Editors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat Syntactic punctuation distraction Comma: Over-usage Part 2 Coordinated noncore sentence constituents are likely to be disrupted by unnecessary comma punctuation. Medical…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 32, Issue

Syntactic punctuation distraction Comma over-usage probably results from a tendency to pause and emphasise. How ever, such intuitive punctuation is counterproductive to the coordination of sentence core constituents, the intent of which is to cohere…

Medical Communications and Writing for Patients - Volume 32, Issue

Introducing a new EMWA Special Interest Group: Communicating with the Public Contributors: Sampoorna Rappaz (author), Lisa Chamberlain James (section editor) The Communicating with the Public Special Interest Group (CwP SIG) held its first Meet…

Clinical trial transparency and disclosure from the medical writing perspective - Volume 33, Issue

It’s been more than 6 years since our last Medical Writing edition dedicated to clinical trial transparency and disclosure. Since then, we have seen the full implementation of the long-awaited EU Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR), the pause and restar…

Publications - Volume 33, Issue

Preprints: Why and how to use them Section Editor and Author: Maddy Dyer Preprints are a key part of science communication and publication strategy. Medical writers should therefore help inform authors about preprint options. In this article, I…

Digital Communication - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editor: Nicole Bezuidenhout

Exploring the role of Microsoft’s Copilot in visual communication: Current use and considerations through science communicators’ lens

Author: Jacqueline Bersano

Medical Writing. 2024;33(3):79–88. https://do…

The evolution of biotechnology: From ancient civilisations to modern day - Volume 32, Issue

This article takes you on an intriguing exploration of the intertwined histories of biotechnology and medical writing. From ancestral plant cultivation to revolutionary advancements in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, we delve into the…

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 31, Issue

How to make our life easier? It was my pleasure to invite my colleagues from the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) to share their editorial experience with us medical writers. By doing this, we can improve our writing, which will…