What is the best quality of diabetes care? The Global Diabetes Survey needs your participation - Volume 21, Issue

Adequate quality of diabetes care and the best concept for the implementation of national diabetes plans remains controversial. In September 2011, the United Nations Summit for Non-Communicable Diseases agreed that national plans for prevention and…

Regulatory Matters - Volume 30, Issue

Calling all medical writers:

Focus your writing with lean authoring

In today’s medical writing environment, authors are routinely faced with expedited timelines to write documents about highly complex studies with overwhelming amounts of data. Revi…

Carbon footprint of clinical trials: a high-level literature review - Volume 31, Issue

Thousands of clinical trials are conducted globally each year. Yet, little is known about their environmental impact. This paper presents the results of a high-level literature review of the carbon footprint of clinical trials. Five papers were…

EMWA’s newest special interest group: Sustainability SIG - Volume 29, Issue

In 2015, the United Nations set 17 Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs, Figure 1) as a “universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030”.1 Central to these SDGs is planetary…

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…

AI language models are transforming the medical writing space – like it or not! - Volume 32, Issue

Whether you’re an early adopter, an occasional user, or yet to acknowledge its transformative potential, artificial intelligence (AI) – specifically generative AI applications underpinned by large language models – is undeniably shaping our present…

Biostatistics and medical writing: Synergy in preparing clinical trials documents - Volume 25, Issue

Biostatisticians and medical writers are among the key people who develop important documents for clinical trials. These documents include clinical study protocols, statistical analysis plans, statistical outputs, and clinical study reports. This…

English Grammar and Style - Volume 21, Issue

Pleasing the reader The fundamental principle in the practice of medicine, ‘first, do no harm’, could be transposed to the world of medical writing to ‘first, do not annoy’. The Good Writing Practice (GWP) group at EMWA has been focussing on…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 30, Issue

Introduction In this regular feature, the misagreement in tense is extended from present and present perfect tense (discussed in the previous edition of MEW) to an analysis of the frequently used present participle (of the participial phrase) and…

EMWA News - Volume 25, Issue

A lot was going on from April to June this year. Certainly the main event was our spring conference in Munich. Aside the established workshops, Freelance Business Forum, Expert Seminar Series, and updates on Special Interest Groups – it included an…