Medical Writing Writing for Patients

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Volume 29, Issue 4 - Writing for Patients

December 2020

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Editorial

Writing for Patients

Authors: Lisa Chamberlain James, Amy Whereat

Passing the Torch: The Sequel/Filling Big Shoes

Authors: Raquel Billiones

Foreword: Writing for Patients, Foreword from the EMA

Authors: Juan García Burgos, Paul Blake

President's Message

President's Message

Author: Beatrix Döerr

EMWA News

EMWA News

Author: Somsuvro Basu

Feature Articles

Promoting equity in understanding: A cross-organisational plain language glossary for clinical research

Authors: Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, Behtash Bahador, Helle Gawrylewski, Art Gertel, Brandis Pickard, Sarah A. White, Barbara E. Bierer

Medical abbreviations with multiple meanings: A prescription for disaster

Author: Neil M Davis

Writing for patients: When and how?

Authors: Lisa Chamberlain James, Deborah Collyar, Allen Todd, Catina O'Leary

Lay summaries for Phase 1 trials in healthy volunteers

Authors: Clive M. Brown, Leonie H.E. Leithold, Kamila Sroka-Saidi, Thomas M. Schindler

Participant information – an ethics committee view

Author: Alison Rapley

Establishing a patient publication steering committee: A case study with insights for medical writers

Authors: Linda Feighery, Alexandra Moutet, Trishna Bharadia, Nicole Meinel, Hannah Carney, Karen L. Woolley

Translation: A transcultural activity

Author: Andrea Rossi

Writing for the internet

Author: Diarmuid De Faoite

Social Media: A tool that can benefit public health?

Author: Sara Ferrao

Partnering with patient associations: Engaging medical writers to support health literacy for patients

Author: Amanda Whereat

Pharmaceutical clinical trials transparency and privacy

Authors: Sarah Lyons, Vivien Fagan

Regular Sections

News from the EMA

Author: Anuradha Alahari

Medical Devices

Authors: Kelly Goodwin Burri, Laura C. Collada Ali, Katharina Friedrich

Regulatory Matters

Authors: Genevieve J. Long, Jennifer Morris

In the Bookstores

Authors: Alison McIntosh, Stephen Gilliver, Nathan D. Susnik

Good Writing Practice

Authors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat, Michael Lewis Schneir

My First Medical Writing

Authors: Evguenia Alechine, Clara García-Gorro

Getting Your Foot in the Door

Authors: Raquel Billiones

Out on Our Own

Authors: Laura A. Kehoe, Shaun W. Foley

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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.

Medical Writing is listed in the following indexes:

Editoral Board

Editor-in-Chief

Raquel Billiones

Co-Editors

Evguenia Alechine

Managing Editor

Victoria White

Deputy Managing Editor

Alicia Brooks Waltman

Associate Editors

Anuradha Alahari

Nicole Bezuidenhout

Barbara Grossman

Sampoorna Rappaz

Section Editors

AI/Automation

Biotechnology

Nicole Bezuidenhout

Digital Communication

EMWA News

Freelancing

Ana Sofia Correia

Gained in Translation

Getting Your Foot in the Door

Wendy Kingdom / Amy Whereat

Good Writing Practice

Pablo Izquierdo / Alison McIntosh

In the Bookstores

Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Lingua Franca and Beyond

Publications

Lisa Chamberlain-James

Medical Communications/Writing for Patients

Medical Devices

Evguenia Alechine

My First Medical Writing

Anuradha Alahari

News from the EMA

Tiziana von Bruchhausen

Pharmacovigilance

Clare Chang / Zuo Yen Lee

Regulatory Matters

Regulatory Public Disclosure

Louisa Ludwig-Begall / Sarah Kabani

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications

Jeff Blair / Luiza Ventura

Veterinary Writing

Editors Emeritus

Elise Langdon-Neuner

Layout Designer

Chris Monk