From the Editor - Volume 31, Issue

Medical Writing. 2022;31(4)5. https://doi.org/10.56012/fxws3558

The Light Stuff - Volume 22, Issue

The medical profession has a well-deserved reputation for atrocious handwriting, which has undoubtedly led to many mishaps in patient care. Sometimes, however, problems in interpreting doctor's writing, as those of us who have worked on publications…

EMWA News - Volume 30, Issue

Spanish translation of the Joint Position Statement on Medical Publications, Preprints, and Peer Review We are proud to announce the posting of our first translation of the Joint Position Statement into Spanish by Almudena Pardo Mateos and reviewed…

Risk Management - Volume 24, Issue

The thalidomide tragedy of the early 1960s cost several thousand lives, but it ultimately led to changes that will undoubtedly save many thousands more: it triggered a chain of events involving the WHO and the ICH that resulted in the…

News from the EMA - Volume 23, Issue

Update from the European Medicines Agency on development of its policy on publication and access to clinical-trial data   From the European Medicines Agency, 13 November 2013 – The European Medicines Agency is currently reviewing and analysing…

Winner of the Geoff Hall Scholarship Essay Competition - Volume 31, Issue

The Geoff Hall Scholarships are given in honour of the former President of EMWA. Geoff was a very special person, an extremely valued member of EMWA, and a very good friend to many EMWA members. He firmly believed that the future of EMWA lies in our…

In the Bookstores - Volume 22, Issue

While other guides focus on how to write scientific papers, What Editors Want advises on preparing them for publication. Its authors, Philippa Benson and Susan Silver, identify their target readers as writers, senior researchers, and teachers of…

Out On Our Own - Volume 23, Issue

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 25, Issue

Authors and co-authors This issue of Medical Writing is about Authors and Authorship, a topic, which despite stringent rules and regulations is sensitive, culturally-dependent and often full of emotion. I guess that we could have endless…

English Grammar and Style - Volume 24, Issue

In this issue •  We continue Michael Schneir's fascinating series on distractions in medical and scientific writing, this time concentrating on non-pronoun-induced backtracking with adverbs, verbs, and nouns. This sounds a little…