Good Writing Practice - Volume 32, Issue

Syntactic punctuation distraction This article explores the problem of omitted commas in the structure of certain  sentences. Contributors: Michael Lewis Schneir (author), Wendy Kingdom (section editor), Any Whereat (section editor) Medical…

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…

International teams: How to survive a long-distance work relationship among medical writers - Volume 31, Issue

How does a team of medical writers working in different countries navigate different time zones and cultures to get their work done remotely? In this interview, a team of six medical writers and one editor working at P95, a private research…

Medical Communications - Volume 24, Issue

Dear all, However experienced you are, and whatever ‘level’ medical writer you may be, we all share the same pain… document review processes. Every medical writer has at least one horror story related to review cycles going awry, and the mere…

Medical Devices - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editor: Payal Bhatia EMWA’s medical device expert seminar series brings together speakers with different expertise providing valuable insights into the medical device industry. Medical device Expert Seminar Series: Beyond traditional…

Medical Communication - Volume 22, Issue

Introducing the Medical Communication section: The wild side of medical writing! Hello and welcome to a brand spanking new section of Medical Writing. When the Editor of Medical Writing, Phil Leventhal, approached me to create a new section,…

Post-approval regulatory writing - Volume 23, Issue

Good Writing Practice - Volume 21, Issue

The Good Writing Practice initiative was launched in the December 2010 issue of TWS1 by Alistair Reeves and Wendy Kingdom. The aim is to go beyond the classic style guide and provide advice on practical aspects of writing that make texts easier to…

Same but different: Basic tools for biosimilar and generic pharmacovigilance writing - Volume 28, Issue

Biosimilars are medicinal products, which are highly similar to an already authorised biological product; generics are identical copies of an already authorised chemical entity. As for any other medicinal product,biosimilars and generics require the…

Graphing software for medical writers - Volume 23, Issue

The production of high-quality graphical figures of scientific data is an important aspect of medical writing, since the significance of the research findings can be lost to the audience if the data are presented poorly or inaccurately. This…