News from the EMA - Volume 31, Issue

EMA is putting in place special support to developers to replace, reduce and refine animal use for the development, manufacturing and testing of human and veterinary medicines. The Agency is promoting these three principles replace, reduce and…

Out on Our Own - Volume 25, Issue

In this edition of OOOO, we are pleased to bring to you four diverse and thought provoking articles, and some practical tips. We thank you for your contributions and once again invite you to submit any articles that you wish to share with your…

Medical writing in paediatrics: Children and the future - Volume 21, Issue

‘Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.’ Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 With the falling birth rate I wonder if they still are a third of the population, but there is no doubt that they are our…

The value of registry data in the clinical evaluation of medical devices - Volume 29, Issue

Medical device manufacturers must continuously evaluate all clinical data available for their products marketed in Europe. With the European Medical Device Regulation 2017/745 coming into force in May 2021, manufacturers are required to assess…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 27, Issue

Circumlocution is the usage of a multiword structure instead of a shorter syntactic unit, for example, usage of a clause instead of a phrase. The distraction consequence of circumlocution can be sentence pattern disruption and unintended…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 31, Issue

Contributors: Michael Lewis Schneir, Wendy Kingdom (section editor), Any Whereat (section editor) Syntactic punctuation distraction - Michael Lewis Schneir Medical Writing. 2022;31(4)84-85. https://doi.org/10.56012/tbjp1682

Good Writing Practice - Volume 32, Issue

Section Editors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat Syntactic punctuation distraction Slash: usage and misusage Author: Michael Lewis Schneir Medical Writing. 2023;32(4):86. https://doi.org/10.56012/qlrn907

Medical Devices - Volume 27, Issue

The spring EMWA conference held in Barcelona is now behind us – and what a conference it was for medical device writers and those who want to become one! A full symposium day on medical devices with more than 200 registrants and two fully booked…

Medical decision making at the individual and population level: The increasing role of evidence - Volume 30, Issue

The major change in medical decision making over the last 50 years has been the realisation that treatment decisions would be improved if doctors’ existing knowledge was supplemented by evidence generated systematically through health services…

EU Regulations - Volume 29, Issue