The regulatory-HTA decision-making interface: What the medical writer should know - Volume 30, Issue

For a new medicine to reach patients, it must achieve both regulatory marketing authorisation and reimbursement from the payer. Because regulators assess the benefits and risks of a medicine while the health technology assessment (HTA) bodies assess…

Setting up for success: An overview of why mentoring matters for aspiring medical writers - Volume 30, Issue

The most successful people attribute their success to an effective mentoring network. Developing a great mentor network is critical to ensuring long-term professional development and growth. This article presents an overview of the mentoring…

Medical Writing in Chinese: Language-specific considerations for Chinese regulatory medical writers - Volume 33, Issue

Good medical writing saves lives: The perspective of a former medic - Volume 26, Issue

Making the decision to leave medicine was the hardest of my life. What if all those years of study, thousands of pounds of debt and sacrifices I made were not wasted but instead prepared me for my most gallant career yet – medical writing? Believing…

Medical Writing Humour - Volume 29, Issue

We ended our recent Intensive Medical Writing Course at Copenhagen University with a session on cover letters.

To be or not to be – Are medical and scientific writers of non-native English origin at a disadvantage? - Volume 26, Issue

My First Medical Writing - Volume 31, Issue

I am pleased to share an article by an aspiring medical writer from Poland. Hanna KurlandaWitek finished her PhD in geoscience at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in microbiology. After working in an environmental consultancy for a few…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue

In this edition of My First Medical Writing, we welcome one of the first articles written by aspiring medical writer Mayya Sundukova. A physicist by training, Mayya pursued her PhD in neuroscience in SISSA, Italy, studying ion channels, and then…

Veterinary Medical Writing - Volume 29, Issue

Cemile Jakupoglu of Cyton AH Biosciences GmbH and Maggie Fisher of Veterinary Research Management give the Veterinary Medical Writing section of the journal an overview of some major changes involved in therevision of the “Guideline on the conduct…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue

In this release of My First Medical Writing, we welcome one of the first articles written by Robin Sachdeva. Robin finished his PhD at Heidelberg University in Germany, and he is passionate about reading and writing about diabetes. Fortunately,…