Social media scheduling: How not to spam your followers - Volume 30, Issue

Social media is, today, an indispensable part of networking and business. However, many professionals are still learning how to navigate the sea of social media. Big companies have a dedicated department, but small businesses, entrepreneurs, and…

Medical Communications - Volume 26, Issue

Dear all,The legal side of our job is something that most of us usually give little thought to. We assume that as scientists, we are automatically on the “right side” and therefore pretty bulletproof. Why should the law affect us, as longas we have…

Publication planning and patient-reported outcomes: Demonstrating value in a multi-stakeholder era - Volume 27, Issue

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are an essential element to demonstrate the value of a health intervention. In many ways, PROs represent the ultimate “real-world” data, yet the drive towards “Big Data” has focused onroutinely collected data from…

The PROMIS of electronic patient-reported outcomes - Volume 27, Issue

Paper-based questionnaires are in widespread use for patient-reported outcomes, but they can be an inefficient way of collecting patient data. Electronic patient-reported outcomes are of wide interest and have the potential to drastically change…

Medical Devices - Volume 28, Issue

Digital health is touching many aspects of the medical device world. Here Beatrix Doerr provides her perspective on the ways digital health and artificial intelligence have touched the medical device world and have already changed the way healthcare…

Out On Our Own - Volume 24, Issue

Editorial

All of us are aware by now that we can't live without technology and not only at work. With advice, aids, appliances and apps in abundance, we are at the point where we can't see the wood for the trees. Thank goodness we have advice from M…

Out on Our Own - Volume 28, Issue

Surprisingly, many professionals still don’t fully appreciate how professional associations can help them in their career path. They may view associations as training grounds in a given field and forget or disregard all the other opportunities these…

Mentor vs. line manager: Differences and similarities - Volume 30, Issue

A good mentor may be a good line manager in a business setting and vice versa, but there are some key differences: mentors are more skill-oriented, while line managers are more goal-oriented. People who are both good line managers and mentors are…

HIV vaccine clinical trials: An overview - Volume 27, Issue

More than 30 years after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus as the agent that causes AIDS, an effective vaccine against this deadly disease has yet to be developed. The pathway to the development of a vaccine has been riddled with…

1000 words in 1 picture - Volume 28, Issue

Communication is as much verbal as it is visual. We tend to rely on technical texts for transmitting medical information, but sometimes an image may convey complex medical concepts in a simpler and shorter form. Medical illustration requires…