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Recent and upcoming regulatory changes in the European Region: Opportunitiess for medical writers - Volume 29, Issue

The European regulatory landscape for clinical trials and medical devices is in the midst of major transformation. Older policies are giving way to new regulations that emphasise more harmonised and streamlined processes for document submittal,…

Quality of life measures – an overview - Volume 27, Issue

HR-QoL measurements attempt to turn subjective information into objective information. In this article, I describe the different kinds of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures, how they work, and how they can be interpreted. Main types of…

Risk Management - Volume 24, Issue

The thalidomide tragedy of the early 1960s cost several thousand lives, but it ultimately led to changes that will undoubtedly save many thousands more: it triggered a chain of events involving the WHO and the ICH that resulted in the…

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 31, Issue

How to make our life easier? It was my pleasure to invite my colleagues from the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) to share their editorial experience with us medical writers. By doing this, we can improve our writing, which will…

Imaging techniques in oncology - Volume 21, Issue

Identifying and diagnosing cancerous diseases is currently one of the main tasks of today's radiologist. Every year cancer is diagnosed worldwide in over 12 million people. Within a single year, 7 million people die from cancer worldwide. The most…

Medical Communications - Volume 22, Issue

Having left the office for 5 days to go to the EMWA Spring Conference, I returned to the obligatory email avalanche. While it was mostly junk (and unfortunately still no ‘congratulations on winning the lottery’ message…), there were some messages…

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…

Is exercise physiology a real science? - Volume 21, Issue

Exercise physiology has not always been held with the same regard as other scientific disciplines. Despite the often held view that it is confined to the study of sport, exercise physiology has contributed to some of the most important scientific…

RCTs: Can the treatment work? Patient registries: Does the treatment work? - Volume 26, Issue

The first part of this article compares the main features of studies based on patient registry data with those of randomised clinical trials, providing a basis for better understanding the differences between the two. The second part details how to…

Reveal, Rebalance, Release: Thoughts on mentoring young professionals in the industry - Volume 30, Issue

Making the first steps as a medical writer in the pharma and biotech industry can be challenging. Three general principles can help managers foster the growth and development of their team members: Reveal, Rebalance, and Release. Reveal means that…

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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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