Volume 21, Issue 4 - Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
English grammar and style
Authors: Alistair Reeves, Alistair Kidd
Abstract
Good Writing Practice
In the September issue of MEW, Stephen Gilliver said that he couldn't tell us ‘the number of times I have read the word evidences used as a plural noun, in manuscripts written by non-native English speakers. While grammatically incorrect … does it impede comprehension? No.’.
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The horror and the pity: Obesity and diabetes
Passing the torch
Message from the President
Obesity: When weight becomes unbearable
Genetics and environmental factors in obesity and diabetes: Complex problems, complex solutions
New treatments for type 2 diabetes
Is exercise physiology a real science?
What is the best quality of diabetes care? The Global Diabetes Survey needs your participation
The importance of Health Research in Horizon 2020: Diabetes as a model of a chronic disease and the need for sustainable funding
Is anyone stealing your articles? Exploding copyright myths
Paragraphing (Part 1 of 2)
Improving patient communication by writing with empathy
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Editor-in-Chief:
- Phillip Leventhal (4Clinics, Lyon, France)
Co-Editor:
- Evguenia Alechine
- Stephen Gilliver (TFS Trial Form Support, Lund, Sweden)
Managing Editor
- Victoria White (Tampa, Florida, USA) Email: MEW@emwa.org
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Associate Editors:
- Anuradha Alahari (PAREXEL International, Paris, France)
- Raquel Billiones (Clinipace, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Barbara Grossman (Hawkeye Medical Limited, Berkshire, UK)
- Joselita T Salita (Freelance, Bremen, Germany)
- Nathan Susnik (Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany)
- Clare (Chi-Chih) Chang
- Jonathan Pitt
Section Editors:
- Alison McIntosh (ICON Clinical Research, Hampshire, UK)
- Wendy Kingdom (Wendy Kingdom Ltd., Dulverton, UK)
- Lisa Chamberlain-James (Trilogy Writing and Consulting, Norfolk, UK)
- Maria Koltowska-Haggstrom (Proper Medical Writing Warsaw, Poland)
- Laura Collada Ali (Teksema, Cogne, Italy)
- Hervé Maisonneuve (Freelance, Lyon, France)
- Satyen Shenoy (Describe Scientific Writing & Communications, Cologne, Germany)
- Claire Gudex (Klinisk Institut, Odense, Denmark)
- Beatrix Doerr
- Sam Hamilton (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
Ad-hoc Editors:
- Amy Whereat (SpeaktheSpeech Consulting, Asnieres sur Seine, France)
Editor Emeritus:
- Elise Langdon-Neuner (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)