Successful document collaboration in a virtual team - Volume 22, Issue

When several contributors are working on the same document, challenges are often created for both managers and contributors. This article discusses how technology can be used to help produce documents in collaboration.

Why would the healthcare industry need a doughnut? - Volume 30, Issue

Doughnut economics provides a new framework for sustainable development, by balancing the ecological boundaries of the planet with the social boundaries of humanity. The framework provides a valuable opportunity for the healthcare industry to…

Medical decision making at the individual and population level: The increasing role of evidence - Volume 30, Issue

The major change in medical decision making over the last 50 years has been the realisation that treatment decisions would be improved if doctors’ existing knowledge was supplemented by evidence generated systematically through health services…

Preclinical studies - Volume 26, Issue

Welcome to this special issue about nonclinical and preclinical research. Nonclinical and preclinical research is the first step toward new drug development, where scientists investigate mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, and safety. Many…

Changing methods to assess targeted therapies in oncology - Volume 27, Issue

New methods have been developed to evaluate targeted therapies, since the classic sequence – phase I, toxicity; phase II, efficacy; phase III, comparison with standard treat ment – is no longer effective for evaluating these new treatments. In…

Good clinical practice (GCP): A universal call for ethics in biomedical research - Volume 23, Issue

Today, the principles of good clinical practice (GCP) form such an integral part of the development of new medicines that they could easily be taken for granted. Yet, the road to a universal code of ethics in human experimentation is paved with…

Editorial - Volume 31, Issue

Medical devices are at the core of healthcare forming a large share of the global healthcare market. With consistent advances in technology, MedTech is enhancing our lives more so now than a few decades ago owing to accelerated digitisation and…

Medical illustration in the 21st century and beyond - Volume 29, Issue

This paper provides an overview of contemporary medical illustration; the role of the modern medical illustrator is examined, including who they are likely to work for and with, as well as the range of media and technology employed. The…

Digital Communication - Volume 30, Issue

The past two years have confronted humanity with a variety of unprecedented challenges due to the far-reaching COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this tragedy have come monumental new advances in science and technology – namely the vaccines developed…

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…