Medical Communications - Volume 26, Issue

Dear all,In this issue, Rossella Ferrari tackles the elephant in the room – how do medical writers manage to find time for their continuing professional development whilst still keeping their head above water with their ongoing project work?We all…

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 25, Issue

In this issue of Medical Writing, I would like to recommend two articles. Szymon Musiolshares with us his thoughts on a statistician’s role in research overall and also in the process of preparing publications. He takes a medical writer’s…

Medical Communications - Volume 22, Issue

Meeting reports are an aspect of ‘medical’ and other technical writing that has had little discussion. The following might be of interest to medical writers asked to provide rapid, reliable, objective reports of various types of meeting. The United…

HTA decision-making: Do ethics matter? - Volume 30, Issue

Before reviewing the article in this issue of Medical Writing by Larry Liberti and Tina Wang, The regulatory-HTA decision-making interface: What the medical writer should know (p. 50), I put on my ethicist’s hat. Thus, I tuned my ethics antennae to…

Innovative use of master protocols for pivotal studies in rare diseases - Volume 34, Issue

Recent years have seen the development of clinical study protocols that introduce more complex design features into the usual gold-standard randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Complex protocols are potentially useful for drug evaluation in the…

Visual aids in patient-focused drug development and routine clinical practice - Volume 34, Issue

Effective medical communication is critical for patient consent, adherence to treatment, and improved health outcomes. Visual aids, such as infographics, diagrams, and charts, have proven invaluable for enhancing comprehension, particularly of…

Public perceptions of health information generated by AI: A research study - Volume 34, Issue

Artificial intelligence (AI) integration in clinical practice has intensified in the last few years, from systems analysing and interpreting existing data to generative AI systems capable of creating new information and offering new possibilities…

Considerations for the use of artificial intelligence in the creation of lay summaries of clinical trial results - Volume 34, Issue

The clinical research landscape is constantly evolving, as new regulations and innovations come together to help accelerate scientific discoveries and medical advances. A prominent example of this is the rapidly emerging technology of artificial…

Profile - Volume 26, Issue

The new European medical device regulation and guidance document on clinical evaluation An Interview with Dr Bassil Akra The successor of the currently applicable Medical Device Directives (MDD 93/42/EEC and 90/385/EE) combines both directives…

From the Editor - On social media: Once a passive observer – now an active user - Volume 30, Issue

It is with great pleasure that I write my first editorial for this amazing issue on social media. The idea of this issue came to me in 2019, inspired by two special colleagues.

I had social media accounts even before I became a medical writer. I rec…