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Message from the President - Volume 21, Issue

Dear MEW reader Welcome to the first 2012 Medical Writing or MEW issue – another EMWA milestone to start off this stellar year. I hope you enjoy the new design and the thematic focus on oncology. The theme of EMWA's upcoming 34th Spring conference…

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…

Medical Communications - Volume 22, Issue

Meeting reports are an aspect of ‘medical’ and other technical writing that has had little discussion. The following might be of interest to medical writers asked to provide rapid, reliable, objective reports of various types of meeting. The United…

Lifelong learning opportunitites are available for all - Volume 31, Issue

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) call all UN member states– low-, high- and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the environment. The 17 goals are part “of a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for…

Differences between writing for medical devices and pharmaceuticals: An update - Volume 31, Issue

Although the medical device and pharmaceutical industries are related, they are governed by distinct regulatory systems. Despite the similarities, the inherent differences between medical devices and drugs have implications for clinical research…

A beginner´s guide to writing clinical investigation plans and reports for medical devices - Volume 31, Issue

A clinical investigation plan for a medical device must outline and justify all objectives of the clinical investigation, present and justify the investigational design and methodology, and state principal features of the statistical analysis. A…

Combined workshops on medical writing and publication ethics for Japanese postgraduate students and faculty members - Volume 22, Issue

Although the importance both of skills in medical writing in English and of an understanding of ethics in medical publishing is increasingly recognised, these subjects are not comprehensively taught to Japanese medical doctors and students. Limited…

The new PubMed – underestimated regulatory obstacles - Volume 29, Issue

NCBI´s PubMed is a powerful literature retrieval tool widely utilised in many areas including science and regulatory affairs. In regulatory affairs, PubMed searches are employed to identify clinical evidence pertinent to product approval…

The changing face of (benefit-)risk management - Volume 24, Issue

Over the last 20 years the focus of post-approval management of medicines has changed from risk management to the assessment and management of benefit-risk. In the EU this has been reinforced by changes in the legislation underpinning…

Time to make it shorter: Plain English in our context - Volume 24, Issue

Plain English in medical and scientific writing is not one-size-fits-all, because audiences differ. Advice on writing plain English abounds. In 1946, George Orwell, best known as the author of 1984, formulated a much quoted, compact set of rules for…

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Medical Writing is a quarterly publication that aims to educate and inform medical writers in Europe and beyond. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, and all issues include feature articles and regular columns on topics relevant to the practice of medical writing. We welcome articles providing practical advice to medical writers; guidelines and reviews/summaries/updates of guidelines published elsewhere; original research; opinion pieces; interviews; and review articles.

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