News from the EMA - Volume 30, Issue

Medical writers at EMA have published an “EMA medical terms simplifier” (https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/ot her/ema-medical-terms-simplifier_ en.pdf) on the “Glossaries” page of EMA’s website (under “About us”) to provide public-friendly…

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…

Lingua Franca and Beyond - Volume 25, Issue

Communication, communication and even medical communication What is it about? Let’s start with the Wikipedia definition: “Communication (from Latin comm - ūnicāre, meaning ‘to share’) is the purposeful activity of information exchange between two…

Science writing workshops for AIDS vaccine researchers in Africa - Volume 22, Issue

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is a global scientific and advocacy organisation dedicated to ensuring an AIDS vaccine for use worldwide. In Africa, IAVI partners with seven research centres who conduct vaccine trials and studies.…

Lay summaries and writing for patients: Where are we now and where are we going? - Volume 28, Issue

We examine the trend for increasing and more transparent patient information and ask how close we have come in the last few years to producing useful and meaningful information for patients. We also outline the challenges faced by medical writers…

Science for all: Is it all about the publication of data, or beyond? - Volume 31, Issue

This article presents an overview of open access initiatives by researchers, journals, government bodies, and regulatory authorities. Open access initiatives are valuable to the scientific community and have increased the amount of clinical research…

Regulatory Public Disclosure - Volume 28, Issue

Keeping up with regulatory public disclosure (RPD) globally is a challenge for us all. This regular RPD section of Medical Writing and EMWA’s RPD Special Interest Group (SIG) help you stay ahead of the game through information sharing.

News from the EMA - Volume 32, Issue

This roundup of news from the EMA includes information on vaccines to protect against dengue, therapy to treat transplant patients with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease, the withdrawal of marketing authorisations for amfepramone…

News from the EMA - Volume 33, Issue

The articles included in this section are a selection from the European Medicines Agency’s News and Press Releases archive. More information can be found on the Agency’s website: www.ema.europa.eu. Section Editor: Anuradha Alahari Medical…

Eudamed's delay and its impact on discolsure of clinical investigations under the EU MDR - Volume 29, Issue

The new European Database on Medical Devices (Eudamed) is the platform to be used for the prospective registration of clinical investigations for medical devices under the Medical Device Regulations. However, Eudamed’s launch has been delayed till…