President's Message - Volume 32, Issue

A look forward – and back! - at AI in Medical Writing This issue of Medical Writing is devoted to automation and artificial intelligence (AI), the hot topic that interests all of us and that is likely to change our lives dramatically, at least our…

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 32, Issue

Sustainable supply As medical writers/ communicators who provide services to pharmaceutical companies, we are part of a pharmaceutical company’s supply chain. In this issue, we follow-up on EMWA’s November 2022 Expert Series Seminar (ESS) on…

News from the EMA - Volume 30, Issue

February 26, 2021 – EMA has recommended granting a marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the first treatment that can be given orally to patients with certain types of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare and often fatal genetic…

Advance your medical writing career with essential soft skills - Volume 33, Issue

Medical writing demands a comprehensive set of technical skills, from mastering regulatory and ethical guidelines to honing exceptional writing abilities. The foundation of superior medical writing is built on the hard skills acquired through educati…

Changing methods to assess targeted therapies in oncology - Volume 27, Issue

New methods have been developed to evaluate targeted therapies, since the classic sequence – phase I, toxicity; phase II, efficacy; phase III, comparison with standard treat ment – is no longer effective for evaluating these new treatments. In…

Medical Communications and Writing for Patients - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editor: Lisa Chamberlain James

Involving patients in company-sponsored medical publications: Learning from collaboration with a patient advocacy group to engage patient authors

Authors: Aki Yoshikawa, Atsuko Iwata, Miho Hatano, Yuko Koji…

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…

The Webscout - Volume 21, Issue

Writing matters Writing matters – anything that matters in writing, or any writing that matters? I tend to interpret it the second way, but I asked Google what it thinks. It responded with some nice-to-read, worth-reading, and helpful sites. I…

The evolution of biotechnology: From ancient civilisations to modern day - Volume 32, Issue

This article takes you on an intriguing exploration of the intertwined histories of biotechnology and medical writing. From ancestral plant cultivation to revolutionary advancements in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, we delve into the…

Connecting the dots across the writing continuum - Volume 32, Issue

A medical writer has a unique opportunity to be involved with documents across the various stages of a product’s lifecycle. At the start of their careers, writers typically specialise in documents that are created in a particular phase of drug…