The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 34, Issue

Section Editors: Sarah Kabani, Louisa Ludwig-Begall Sustainability in healthcare: Updates and insights for medical writers Author: Sarah Kabani Medical Writing. 2025;34(1):80–82. https://doi.org/10.56012/jbdc3343

Special section: Winners of the Geoff Hall Scholarship essay competition - Volume 24, Issue

The Geoff Hall Scholarships (GHSs) are given in honour of a former President of EMWA. Geoff was a very special person, an extremely valued member of EMWA, and a very good friend to many EMWA members. He firmly believed that the future of EMWA lies in…

Profile: An interview with Phil Leventhal - Volume 25, Issue

How and why EMWA members should contribute to the journal At the beginning of this year, Medical Writing (MEW) changed from Maney Publishing to Hastings Printing Company. This has allowed the journal to dispense with the need for copyright transfer…

Foreword: Writing for Patients, Foreword from the EMA - Volume 29, Issue

In recent years, regulators across the globe have improved the way they communicate to patients and the general public about their activities and how medicines are regulated.

Regulatory Writing Briefing documents: A case apart - Volume 24, Issue

Health authority briefing documents (also known as briefing packs, briefing packages, and briefing books) are documents prepared by a pharmaceutical company to support its interactions (e.g. pre-submission meetings, requests for scientific advice,…

News and Notes from the World of Medical Writing - Volume 30, Issue

EMWA’s Special Interest Group on Medical Communication initiated a reply to an article that made unfounded derogatory remarks about medical writers (MWs). Without providing any evidence, in an article about the development of randomised clinical…

Medical Writing in German: Navigating linguistic complexities - Volume 33, Issue

Introduction - Volume 28, Issue

When I first stepped into the biosimilar world as part of my medical writing career development, I was both excited and surprised. I was entering this fascinating setting with an originator mindset, as many of us do, and discovered that there are…

Unlocking new efficiencies: How structured content authoring is streamlining the production of clinical documents for the pharmaceutical industry - Volume 32, Issue

Current practice requires clinical and regulatory documents to be created and updated manually by medical writers throughout a product’s development. Conventionally, document content is unstructured, with freeform text, figures, and tables that the…

Out On Our Own - Volume 24, Issue

None of us like to think of getting older, and retirement may seem like a long way off for many. However, planning for your pension is critical if you want to ensure greater financial freedom without the need to take on so much work later in life.…