Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 24, Issue

Knowing that the main theme of this issue of Medical Writing is writing for the lay audience, I was thinking hard about what would be the most relevant topic to discuss in the Lingua Franca and Beyond section. My thoughts went to a topic that…

Ongoing patient engagement research efforts at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, King’s College London - Volume 34, Issue

Research efforts within the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, King’s College London, are advancing patient engagement in medicine development and communications through evidence generation. This article presents the ongoing work of two…

Lifelong learning opportunitites are available for all - Volume 31, Issue

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) call all UN member states– low-, high- and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the environment. The 17 goals are part “of a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for…

Update of the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards: CHEERS 2022 - Volume 31, Issue

If economic evaluations are to be used by researchers and healthcare decision makers, they need to be adequately reported. This article discusses the update of the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS 2022), the main…

Carbon footprint of EMWA activities: A first estimate - Volume 32, Issue

The Sustainability Special Interest Group (SUS-SIG) of EMWA was established in 2020 to support the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development from the perspective of a not-for-profit professional organisation for medical writers and…

News from the EMA - Volume 32, Issue

Anuradha Alahari (section editor)   EMA recommends revocation of authorisation for sickle cell disease medicine Adakveo OPEN framework extended to a wider range of medicines Global regulators agree on way forward to adapt COVID-19 vaccines to…

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…

News from the EMA - Volume 32, Issue

This section offers a selection from recent news items from the EMA. Medical Writing. 2023;32(2)86–91.

To bias or not to bias in oncology clinical trials: Perspectives on design, endpoint selection, and reporting - Volume 32, Issue

Developing drugs for cancer is a process as complex as the disease itself. At the planning stage of a clinical trial for an oncology drug, thorough and careful consideration must be given to choosing the right study design and endpoints/estimands,…

News from the EMA - Volume 33, Issue

The articles included in this section are a selection from the European Medicines Agency’s News and Press Releases archive.

Medical Writing. 2024;33(3):72–78.