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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…

Medical Gems - Volume 25, Issue

Every discipline employs its own secretive words – jargon that allows initiates to communicate with one another in a way that excludes others. The world of medicine is no exception. The idioms used by doctors and surgeons range from the humorous to…

In the Bookstores - Volume 22, Issue

This book is regarded by many as the holy grail of reference manuals. For those not familiar with the great tome it contains a massive amount of information regarding ‘publication style and format for scientific papers, journal articles, books, and…

Medical Communication - Volume 27, Issue

At the start of a medical writing career, the quality control (QC) step can fill writers with a sense of dread. Someone is holding a magnifying glass to your carefully crafted (and at this point deeply loved) document and is trying to pick holes in…

Abstracts from the 57th EMWA Conference Poster Session - Volume 33, Issue

EMWA’s spring conference in Valencia featured 18 posters on a wide variety of topics of interest to medical writers. Clinical trial regulations, plain language summaries, graphical abstracts, and document quality control are just a few of the…

Medical writing in China: Trends and opportunities - Volume 27, Issue

The Chinese pharmaceutical regulatory landscape and medical publication policies have gone through drastic changes in recent years, and they continue to evolve. These changes provide great opportunities and many challenges to medical writers in…

MyData: Applying human-centric principles to health data - Volume 29, Issue

Modern data legislation increasingly empowers citizens, and therefore patients, with rights to access and control their health data. The mechanisms needed to exercise modern data rights are currently underdeveloped and underserving individuals and…

Get your (visual) act together: Optimising the design of labels and arrows in medical illustrations - Volume 29, Issue

There is an enhanced communicating power of text when associated with visuals. This is a compelling argument for furnishing medical writers with basic knowledge on how to adapt and create simple figures. This article discusses tips on adding labels…

Legal remedies for medical ghostwriting: Imposing fraud liability on guest authors of ghostwritten articles - Volume 22, Issue

There are persistent concerns about the influence of the pharmaceutical and device industries on the medical literature, and particularly on the reporting of clinical trials, which can include the distortion of the true evidence base of medical…

Letter to the Editor: Because you're worth it? - Volume 23, Issue

To the Editor – I read the recent article on the fourth EMWA freelance business survey1 with great interest and some considerable concern. When freelance writers express an interest in working with Rx Communications, one of the first things we ask…

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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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