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…

Someone in your corner: Musings of a mentor and mentee - Volume 30, Issue

What is a modern mentorship, how do you make it work, and what does gardening have to do with it? Let us take you on a tour of the growing garden of our own modern mentorship, showing how we as a medical writer (Lillian Sandø; mentor) and a clinical…

Writing reports of modelling and simulation analysis: Our experience in the field of pharmacometrics - Volume 32, Issue

Pharmacometric analyses generate mathematical models that can describe and simulate the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs. The role of these modelling and simulation (M&S) analyses is growing both in drug development and regulatory…

Medical abbreviations with multiple meanings: A prescription for disaster - Volume 29, Issue

A partial list of medical abbreviations that have dangerous contradictory or ambiguous meanings is presented. The purpose of presenting this list is to sensitise healthrelated practitioners and medical editors to this problem. Suggestions are made…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 30, Issue

Grammatical misagreement in tense

I – Present, present perfect

Introduction

Each of the sections of a journal article contains anticipated conceptual components, which can be expressed by a specific verb tense for the perspective of time and the d…