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…

The Write Stuff Archive

The Write Stuff Archive

The Write Stuff was the name of EMWA’s journal starting in 1998 and up until the name was changed to Medical Writing in 2012. This archive contains issues of The Write Stuff dating back to 2002.

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EMWA News - Volume 26, Issue

The 45th EMWA Conference in Cascais, Portugal, has recently finished and we are all waiting for the upcoming annual event in Barcelona, Spain, next Spring. In the meantime, the Executive Committee is working hard on improving what EMWA has to offer…

President's Message - Volume 24, Issue

Dear EMWA Members, When we surged en masse onto the dance floor at the Dublin Conference Spring Dinner, supercool ceilidh band ‘Perfect Friction’ were astonished, wondering ‘…what are these medical writers all about?’ We certainly breathed life…

What medical writers need to know about regulatory approval of mobile health and digital healthcare devices - Volume 28, Issue

The rapid growth of mobile health (mHealth) led to the development of internationally harmonised guidance for software as a medical device (SaMD) by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), covering definitions, risk…

Establishing a patient publication steering committee: A case study with insights for medical writers - Volume 29, Issue

Development of a patient publication steering committee (PPSC) is an innovation in industry publication practices. In this brief article, we summarise how UCB Pharma, a global biopharmaceutical company, plans to partner with patients to establish a…

In the Bookstores - Volume 31, Issue

As the authors of this book, Koen Cobbaert and Gert Bos, state “software joins the dots, by connecting patients with healthcare professionals and breaking down the boundaries between everyday objects, medical devices, and medicine.” As a medical…

Pharmacovigilance - Volume 30, Issue

Dear members, I am delighted to launch the Pharmacovigilance (PV) section in this journal issue! Those of you who have been around for a while may know that, in the past, PV-related articles were published either as feature articles or as guest…

Teaching Medical Writing - Volume 32, Issue

Co-development, co-delivery, and evaluation of a Medical Writing module at master’s level Few universities offer courses in medical writing, and students from the biomedical sciences who wish to become medical writers typically need to learn…

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…