The balancing act: Leading creative teams for clear, accurate science communication - Volume 33, Issue

Leading a team is inherently complex, requiring managers to juggle diverse organisational goals, meet superiors’ expectations, and cater to individual team member needs. The challenge intensifies when leading creative teams in a scientific environmen…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 30, Issue

Grammatical misagreement in tense

I – Present, present perfect

Introduction

Each of the sections of a journal article contains anticipated conceptual components, which can be expressed by a specific verb tense for the perspective of time and the d…

Introduction - Volume 28, Issue

It is my privilege to present you the Medical Writing special issue garnering the current Trends in the Medical Writing sphere. With the perpetual amendments in the pharmaceutical industry and the ever-evolving approaches in operating and…

News from the EMA - Volume 28, Issue

October 5, 2018 and November 16, 2018 – Fluoroquinolones and quinolones are a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics that are active against bacteria of both Gram-negative and Grampositive classes. EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee…

Medical Devices - Volume 28, Issue

In the last issue, I started to share my opinion on the recently published “implant files”.1,2 As this topic could be discussed endlessly, I focused on an article in a German newspaper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, that provided a summary about the “10…

Medical Journalism - Volume 21, Issue

The majority of medical writers (either in the pharmaceutical industry, CROs, or as freelancers) provide documents for regulatory authorities. A smaller proportion works in the medical and health communication field writing texts for either…

HIV research fraudster handed stiff prison sentence - Volume 24, Issue

In the December 2014 issue of Medical Writing, I reported that disgraced Iowa State University researcher Dong-Pyou Han was facing fraud charges for faking experiments on a new HIV vaccine.1 In spite of a guilty plea, on 1 July 2015 Dr Han was…

Regulatory initiatives for artificial intelligence applications: Regulatory writing implications - Volume 32, Issue

Applications of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) components in drug development are growing exponentially. The trend is expected to continue. The growth has resulted in increased engagements on the part of regulatory agencies to…

Gained in Translation - Volume 26, Issue

Medical translation training around Europe It’s been said a thousand times, yet, many are still not fully aware of the importance that translation has in our daily lives. Rather than merely supplanting one form of words with another, the translator…

Gained in Translation - Volume 25, Issue

Welcome to the Translation Section editorial! The Italian word Itangliano means Italian that is very much influenced by the English language and most of all it refers to the great presence of English words that are not adapted into Italian.…