Digitalisation in long-term care: An issue for medical writers? - Volume 28, Issue

Digitalisation within the healthcare sector, particularly in long-term care, comes with implementation problems. Accepting digitalisation in caregiving as patient and healthcare professional depends on the understanding of the scope and application…

Out On Our Own - Volume 23, Issue

Go certified – get ready for the BELS exam - Volume 27, Issue

If you are a manuscript editor, you can earn a certification through the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS), attesting your editorial proficiency. Such objective evidence is desirable for many writers and editors in the life sciences –…

Out On Our Own - Volume 21, Issue

Successful migration from the personal computing to Apple computing environment for regulatory medical writers When renewing computer hardware, migration from one system to another, arguably, should not be overlooked. Some of the challenges…

Medical Communications - Volume 26, Issue

Well here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: In this issue we learn how the Argentine Tango can make us better writers. Really! When our contributor, Susanne Geercken, told me that this was the topic she’d  chosen, I was both intrigued and…

EMWA celebrates 25 years - Volume 26, Issue

As recounted by past President Geoff Hall in the March  2008 issue of The Write Stuff, EMWA got its start in 1992, when the first formal meeting was held in Brussels.1This first meeting was quite small – only 32 people attended – and there were no…

The joys of outlining in medical writing - Volume 21, Issue

Using an outline to organize your writing project can help keep you on a straight path and avoid wandering into wastelands of irrelevance. There are various formats – the classic hierarchal model, the IMRAD system used for research reports, the…

Get real: Avoiding corporate gobbledygook - Volume 24, Issue

One spring morning, I was wandering ‘lonely as a cloud’ with a ‘host of golden daffodils’ before me. Then someone stopped me in my tracks: What do you think of the changes in Big Pharma? The illusion was shattered. There was an ominous…

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 30, Issue

Greetings from the croft! In this special issue on medical journalism, we have two contributions that discuss topics that have enjoyed attention in the press: 1. the emerging environmental problem because of the growing drug market for pets, and 2.…

Insulin biosimilars - Volume 28, Issue

Insulin was first purified in 1921 by Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best at the University of Toronto. Soon after, the benefits of using insulin to treat diabetes was discovered, the patent was sold to the University of Toronto for $1,…