Quality control: getting the best out of your review - Volume 21, Issue

In medical writing, quality control (QC) means ensuring that a document's content, style, and format are of high quality. This does not just ‘happen’ but is the result of a systemic QC review. These reviews are critical because mistakes can cause…

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…

Measuring quality of life – theoretical background - Volume 27, Issue

Patient-centred medicine has come out of the increasing importance of patients’ voices in disease management. As part of this, health related quality of life (HR-QoL) has become an important part of assessing treatment outcome and the quality of…

Medical writing in India at a crossroads - Volume 22, Issue

Pharmaceutical regulatory medical writing for document submissions to Western health regulatory agencies has been undertaken in India for almost 10 years. From humble beginnings in a couple of non-Indian pharmaceutical multinational giants –…

Medical Communication - Volume 27, Issue

At the start of a medical writing career, the quality control (QC) step can fill writers with a sense of dread. Someone is holding a magnifying glass to your carefully crafted (and at this point deeply loved) document and is trying to pick holes in…

Abstracts from the 57th EMWA Conference Poster Session - Volume 33, Issue

EMWA’s spring conference in Valencia featured 18 posters on a wide variety of topics of interest to medical writers. Clinical trial regulations, plain language summaries, graphical abstracts, and document quality control are just a few of the…

“Follow the Sun” writing: A hybrid operating model to optimize collaboration and efficiency - Volume 33, Issue

Time, quality, and accuracy are of the essence for expeditious global regulatory submissions. An around-the-clock, 24/7, global medical writing model has been developed that allows efficient development of high-quality documents with appreciable…

An interview with Julia Cooper: Insights and experiences from leading a global medical writing team - Volume 33, Issue

Julia Cooper, PhD, is the Corporate Vice President and Head of Medical Writing Services at Parexel. In this interview, she shares her insights on the different aspects of leading a global medical writing team and on how she and her team at Parexel…

EU sourcing requirements for animal-derived materials - Volume 31, Issue

Regenerative medical products derived from animal tissue have been used to successfully treat millions of patients. As they are manufactured from animal sources, there are bio-contamination and biocompatibility risks that must be addressed in…

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…