News and Notes from the World of Medical Writing - Volume 30, Issue

The Philippine Association of Medical Journal Editors, Inc. (PAMJE) held its 3rd Annual Convention on September 20-23, 2021, with the theme, “Upholding Research Integrity in the Time of Pandemic.” The virtual event was attended by 392 participants…

Regulatory Writing: New developments in public disclosure of clinical trials - Volume 24, Issue

In April this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a statement on the public disclosure of clinical trial results (the full statement is available from http://www.who.int/ictrp/results/reporting/en/). In essence, this statement…

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…

Guest Editorial: Medical writing and health economics/market access: A health economist's view - Volume 22, Issue

Having had the pleasure of attending the one-day symposium on health economics and market access at this year's Spring EMWA conference, and of teaching a workshop on health economics at the conference, two points struck me.

Where have all the UK entry level pharmaceutical regulatory medical writing jobs gone? - Volume 25, Issue

Good medical writing saves lives – and even a little comma can make a difference - Volume 26, Issue

Hello, I am a comma, and I dedicate this essay to the medical writer who gave my life a new meaning and direction. He might even have saved me. I was in quite a depressed state because people did not seem to care about me anymore. Then this guy came…

English Grammar and Style Revising medical writing Reasons not rules: Backtracking, pronoun-induced Part 2 – Single syntactic unit revision - Volume 24, Issue

This is the second of a series of three articles on pronouns that cause distraction by making the reader backtrack. In this article, we examine a technique for eliminating backtracking by making a single change to the construction of the sentence.…

English Grammar and Style: Revising medical writing Reasons not rules: Backtracking, pronoun-induced Part 3 - Double syntactic unit revision and syntactic position revision - Volume 24, Issue

This is the last of this series of three articles on pronouns that cause distraction by making the reader backtrack. In the first part of this article, we examine a technique for eliminating backtracking by making two changes to the construction of…

From editors abroad into businesswomen back in Brazil - Volume 22, Issue

After living for 12 years in the United States, and a career shift from bench scientist in molecular biology to science writer and editor, the author goes back home to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to found Publicase, a science communication company…

Introducing EMWA’s new AI Working Group - Volume 32, Issue

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad umbrella term that refers to the use of computer algorithms to perform tasks that typically require human-like intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, decision-making, and perception. The new EMWA AI…