A decade of change: A new ISMPP has arrived - Volume 22, Issue

Founded originally as a not-for-profit society to provide education, advocacy, and best practices for those involved in medical publication planning, the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) has grown in size to over…

Medical Writing

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…

Clinical data publication by the EMA: The challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry - Volume 27, Issue

As of October 2016, EMA publishes clinicaldata on their clinical data website(https://clinicaldata.ema.europa.eu). Thisnew procedure applies to all marketingauthorisation applications submitted bypharmaceutical companies under thecentralised…

Journal Watch: Dedicated medical writing rotation for pharmacists, publication of drug industry funded research, and evidence-based medicine for clinical decision making - Volume 23, Issue

The ability to write up results and contribute to the medical literature is an important skill in a number of professions, including pharmacy practice. Some pharmacy residency programmes require that their participants produce a manuscript of…

Bad karma - Volume 22, Issue

Bad Pharma provides a hyper-critical account of the pharmaceutical industry's approach to conducting, publishing and using clinical research and development. However, its attack on the drug regulators is unfair and its examination of the medical…

Science for all: Is it all about the publication of data, or beyond? - Volume 31, Issue

This article presents an overview of open access initiatives by researchers, journals, government bodies, and regulatory authorities. Open access initiatives are valuable to the scientific community and have increased the amount of clinical research…

2022 update to Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Company-Sponsored Biomedical Research - Volume 31, Issue

Layperson summaries of clinical trial results: Useful resources in the vacuum of regulatory guidance - Volume 24, Issue

To meet the requirements of the clinical trial regulation, preparation for the publication of lay summaries on the European database should be undertaken as soon as possible. However, as of July 2015 (at the time of writing this article), no…

Consolidated data analysis and presentation using an open-source add-in for the Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet software - Volume 23, Issue

A free and open-source software tool is presented that facilitates the analysis and the visualisation of data in basic life science. Daniel's XL Toolbox is an add-in for the Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet software. It enables scientists to store…

How to get your writing found: Why medical writers and academics need to use search engine optimisation - Volume 32, Issue

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the process of optimising your writing so that it can be found easily on the internet. There are five key steps that you can take to increase the discoverability of your work, which will be discussed below. These a…