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Our journal The Write Stuff (TWS) publishes expert reports, articles and news items relevant to medical and regulatory writing, editing, and translation as well as biomedical journalism and publication. The journal aims to educate, inform, entertain and provoke debate. Contributions, comments and suggestions from anyone whose input complements these aims are very welcome.

Past issues are archived below. Open access to a limited number of articles from each issue is available upon publication. All articles in the each issue are available from 9 months after publication.

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Elise Langdon-Neuner

Editor-in-chief

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AUTHORS AND AUTHORSHIP
Volume 19 Issue 1 (2010) This issue is only accessible to EMWA members. Please login to view this issue.

MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 18 Issue 4 (2009) This issue is only accessible to EMWA members. Please login to view this issue.

STATISTICS
Volume 18 Issue 3 (2009)
	Patientspeak: A Spanish- English glossary of lay medical malapropisms—Part 2	Fernando Navarro
	Patientspeak: a Spanish-English glossary of lay medical malapropisms (Part 2: D-M)	Fernando Navarro

'SCIENTIFIC' WRITING
Volume 18 Issue 2 (2009)
	A week in the life of … Linda Liem	Linda Liem
	Bad science and good writing or good science and bad writing?	Richard Clark
	Book reviews in the medical scholarly literature Part III: Targets of criticism	Françoise Salager Meyer
	Braving The Elements	Alistair Reeves
	Communicating science to popular and academic audiences	Jo Whelan
	Cost of attending the Ljubljana Conference	Alistair Reeves Various
	Decreased evidence of ghostwriting in a 2008 vs 2005 survey of medical writers	Adam Jacobs Cindy Hamilton
	Decreased evidence of ghostwriting in a 2008 vs 2005 survey of medical writers form	Adam Jacobs
	Drug-induced injuries - a growing concern by health authorities	Joeyn Flauaus
	Freelance or employee: Which is better?	Phillip Leventhal
	From the editor’s desk: 'Scientific' writing	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Gateway to heaven: Analysis of the job postings on the EMWA website in 2007 and 2008	Thomas Schindler
	Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 for medical writers	Juliet Roberts
	High performance medical writing Step one: Stop writing immediately	Richard Watson
	Hits and misses: Translating in a world of error	Gabi Berghammer
	In the Bookstores...	Alison McIntosh Gillian Brodie
	Information sources for medical writers	Alison Dev
	Let’s stop moaning about ‘bad’ medical writers—They are only producing what medical journals want	Tim Albert
	Linguistics corner	Françoise Salager Meyer
	Message from the President	Helen Baldwin
	Natural patterns: How native and non-native speakers of English can avoid unnecessary complexity in scientific writing	David Alexander
	Patientspeak: A Spanish-English glossary of lay medical malapropisms–Part 1	Fernando Navarro
	Patientspeak: Spanish-English glossary of lay medical malapropisms (Part 1: A-C)	Fernando Navarro
	Publication practices survey, advice on using medical writers, advertorials, new GPP guidelines, and ghost management of medical publications	Nancy Milligan
	Report on the Ljubljana Freelance Business Forum, May 2009	Alistair Reeves
	Tense matters: The preterite and present perfect in scientific texts	Alistair Reeves
	The four-eyed tarantula and the barnacle goose: Accurate citation or the perpetuation of hearsay	Iain Patten
	Writing for web-based media: Some pros and cons	Raquel Billiones
	Writing protocols: Collaboration and compromise or conflict and confusion? ICR-EMWA Joint Symposium	Alex Dedman Andrew Smith

REGULATORY WRITING
Volume 18 Issue 1 (2009)
	4-letter words and others (5)	Alistair Reeves
	Broad-spectrum medical writer: Nature or nurture?	Alison McIntosh
	Commentary on ‘The world of medical devices: Serving two masters’	Helen Colquhoun
	Contribution to the treatment of rare diseases: Orphan drugs	Christiane Breithaupt
	EMWA Member Satisfaction Survey: The details	Various
	EQUATOR Network: An umbrella organisation to tackle bias in the scientific literature	Catherine Mary
	Freelance Section	Various
	Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials and more on ghostwriting	Nancy Milligan
	In the Bookstores	Various
	Ljubljana: The secret revealed	Ziga Arh
	Medical writing for early clinical development	Biddy Schilizzi
	Medicines with a ‘well established use’	Iain Colquhoun
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Personalised medicine	Joeyn Flauaus
	Readability testing of patient information leaflets	Laurence Auffret
	Successful abstract writing: An essential skill for medical writers	Munise Ohri Keith Dawes
	Techno freaks: Medical writers and independent imaging review	Claire Gillow
	The regulatory medical writer: More than a writer, an expert	Mary Jane Lunsford
	Translation Section	Various
	What sort of a regulatory writer could YOU be?	Sam Hamilton
	Will avian influenza lead to a human pandemic?	Robert Kahn

Issue 4 Volume 17 RULES AND POLICING THEM

RULES AND POLICING THEM
Volume 17 Issue 4 (2008)
	4-letter words and others (4)	Alistair Reeves
	A case history of EC membership—or how I became involved	Helen Baldwin
	A Comment not a Counter	Barbara Grossman
	A report on the European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine (ECSP2)	Kari Skinningsrud
	Address, key and sorted	Alistair Reeves
	Addressing issues or writing what you mean	Neville W. Goodman
	An informative but not essential or comprehensive guide to units, symbols and abbreviations.	Gregory Morley
	Another myth	Alistair Reeves
	Basic Results Reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov and ‘Prior Publication’	Deborah A. Zarin
	Call for nominations for executive committee positions	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Confidentiality, libel, peer review and the law	Elaine Heywood
	CrossRef: From cross-publisher reference linking to cross-publisher plagiarism screening in eight short years	Amy Brand
	De-gendered or de-sexed?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Digital images and the problem of inappropriate manipulation: Can you believe what you see?	Irene Hames
	EMWA Member Satisfaction Survey	Helen Baldwin
	English as the lingua franca of science: A translators view on what’s lost–and what’s gained–in translation	Gabi Berghammer
	False increase	Alistair Reeves
	Freudian commas	Adam Jacobs
	Ghostwriters responsible for the world’s financial crisis?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	GPP2: New ‘Good Publication Practice’ Responsible and ethical clinical publications	Chris Graf Elizabeth (Betts) Field
	How optimal can you get?	Alistair Reeves
	How successful are we at understanding syntactic ambiguity?	Françoise Salager Meyer
	I have seen the future and it works	Geoff Hall
	Inside a research ethics committee	Adam Jacobs
	Invoicing in Germany	Alistair Reeves
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	My second year in business: Update on freelance medical writing activities, October 2007 - September 2008	Sam Hamilton
	Orphan drugs	John Carpenter
	Out on our own	Alistair Reeves Sam Hamilton
	Patients with a past ...	Alistair Reeves
	Publication of clinical trial results, and guest authoring and ghost writers	Melanie Lee
	Say no more!	Alistair Reeves
	Say what you mean	Alistair Reeves
	Searching for The Holy Grail How valuable are metrics in medical writing?	Wendy Kingdom
	SOPs–Pitfalls in the process	Ruth Whittington
	Ten questions for …Lutz Gegenheimer	Lutz Gegenheimer
	The event was treated with cortisone ointment	Alistair Reeves
	The secret world of medical slang	Joeyn Flauaus
	Toolkit for freelancers	Ingrid Edsman
	Who’s Who?	Alistair Reeves
	Working from home—The best of both worlds?	Jude Fry
	Would anyone notice if you died at your desk?	Elise Langdon-Neuner

TIME MANAGEMENT
Volume 17 Issue 3 (2008)
	A public consultation paper on paediatric clinical trial disclosure: European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA)	Kathy B. Thomas Claudia Tesch Michael Braun
	A recipe for chaos: Medical writing, time management, and cooking for friends	Wendy Kingdom
	A week in the life of a medical writer	Thomas Mondrup
	Always manage your time: The point of view of the medical writer in the pharmaceutical industry	Andrea Rossi
	Are we nearly there? Resource planning—step by step	Stephen de Looze
	Book reviews in the medical scholarly literature -Part II: "This book portrays the worst form of mental terrorism"	Françoise Salager Meyer
	Burnout	Lydia J. Goutas
	Coordinating medical writing and publishing in the pharmaceutical industry	Christoph Pfannmüller
	Development of reporting guidelines, adequacy of treatment descriptions in manuscripts, and online articles and citation diversity	Nancy Milligan
	Effective scheduling of Clinical Study Reports	Sam Hamilton
	Get more time out of your day	Debbie Jordan
	In the Bookstores... A blissful read	Helen Baldwin
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Some irreverent thoughts on the word ‘Deadline’	Ursula Schoenberg
	Ten questions for … John Carpenter	John Carpenter
	Time management for a novice freelancer	Stefan Lang
	Time management—Who manages YOUR time?	Alistair Reeves
	Webscout: The art of time management	Joeyn Flauaus
	When time is wide open and deadlines do not press	Jack Aslanian

PERSPECTIVES
Volume 17 Issue 2 (2008)
	Academic titles revisited	Raquel Billiones
	Adverse events: More than a mild headache for the medical writer	Linda Donnini
	Be particular about particularly	Alistair Reeves
	Bleeding nuisance	Alistair Reeves
	Book reviews in the medical scholarly literature. Part I: A brief historical incursion	Geoff Hall
	Breast currency	Helen Baldwin
	Can things do anything but develop over time?	Alistair Reeves
	Clinical trial disclosure—focusing on results	Kathy B. Thomas Claudia Tesch
	Corpus-guided translation and editing: Mary Ellen Kerans	Susanne Geercken
	Corrected incorrects are not always correct	Adam Jacobs
	Country-specific tips: Artist(e)s’ Social Fund for freelancers in Germany	Alistair Reeves
	Darwin Award and moles	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Definitely not Shanks’ pony	Alistair Reeves
	Ethics in clinical trials Discussion leader: Art Gertel	Andrea Palluch
	Finding my feet as a freelance writer	Stefan Lang
	Four letter words and others (3)	Alistair Reeves
	French catch English semi-colon disease	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	From the editor’s desk: Perspectives	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Ghostwriting	Adam Jacobs
	Groping for words: A warning	Alistair Reeves
	Hangings at the bmj: How decisions are made to accept or reject research papers	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	How to save three words	Alistair Reeves
	How to shorten text—we owe it to our readers	Alistair Reeves
	If you weren’t at the AGM this year, well, you should have been …	Rosalie Rose
	Improving the safety of translators and interpreters in war zones: The FIT ID Card	Sheryl Hinkkanen
	In the Bookstores... Nice book, useful guide	Marcel Milcent
	Indentify your punctuation mark and vocabulary improvement	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Linguistic validation of questionnaires used in health outcomes: Paz Gómez-Polledo	Laura Russell
	Medical writing educational materials	J. Patrick Barron
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	MISSING TITLE	Joy Burrough
	Out on our own: From freelancers for freelancers	Alistair Reeves
	Perils of the slash	Alistair Reeves
	Publishing Clinical Trials: Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry	Nancy Milligan Andrew Smith
	Report from the Freelance Business Forum—Barcelona 2008	Alison McIntosh
	Some thoughts on writing slide presentations: Avoiding ‘death by PowerPoint’	Richard Clark
	Ten questions for … Debbie Jordan	Debbie Jordan
	The return of the native: A British perspective	Lutz Gegenheimer
	The return of the native: An American perspective	Kathryn Nelson Emily
	The world of medical devices—serving two masters	Art Gertel Nancy J. Stark
	Three words or one?	Alistair Reeves
	Tools of the Modern Translator’s Trade: Laura Russell	Gabi Berghammer
	Webscout: Getting published	Joeyn Flauaus

Issue 1 Volume 17 10TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

10TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
Volume 17 Issue 1 (2008)
	5% of medication errors are due to misunderstood abbreviations	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	A special guidebook to science in Barcelona coauthored by Mercè Piqueras presenter of the welcome lecture at the EMWA conference	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Educating medical writers: A personal history	Stephen de Looze
	EMWA’s new website	Shanida Nataraja
	From the guest editor’s desk: 10th Anniversary issue: Remembrance of things past	Barry Drees
	How to create the best environment for good translations, or, the care and feeding of your translator	Laurence Auffret Laura Russell
	How to write web articles that charm readers and search engines	Simon Hillier
	-ic or -ical?	Alistair Reeves
	In the Bookstores... Medical English	Birgit Von Janowsky
	Last myths about English (7)	Alistair Reeves
	Medical writing tips and ‘spin’ in scientific reporting	Nancy Milligan
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Monitoring clinical trials: A gratifying experience	Farhad Handjani
	Native tips for the EMWA Spring Conference in Barcelona	Santiago Rosales
	Out on our own: From freelancers for freelancers	Alistair Reeves Sam Hamilton
	Plagiarism prevention in educational institutions is extending to biomedical journals	Raquel Billiones
	Self-employment in Germany—My first steps into freelance medical writing	Stefan Lang
	So what is a ‘native speaker’?	Alistair Reeves
	Ten questions for … Alison McIntosh	Alison McIntosh
	Tense and voice in medical writing	Valerie A. Elliston
	The culture of mistrust is already with us	Miguel Roig
	The history of EMWA: Personal (and possibly unreliable) recollections	Geoff Hall
	The history of The Write Stuff: 10 years of bringing European medical writers together	Barry Drees
	Thinking of going freelance? Write a business plan!	Linda Liem

TITLES
Volume 16 Issue 4 (2007)
	4-letter words and others	Alistair Reeves
	A title to have and to hold	Raquel Billiones
	Capitalisation in titles: To have or not to have an easy life?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Cohorts, groups, arms and collectives	Alistair Reeves
	Colonic titles!	James Hartley
	Consensus is always general	Alistair Reeves
	From academia to medical writing—And staying there	Raquel Billiones
	In the Bookstores... Good Peer Review Practice Explained	Karen Shashok
	In the Bookstores... Just a click or two away	Aleksandra Mišak
	Legal considerations in the selection of article, book and journal titles	Elaine Heywood Victoria Chandler
	Medicine and linguistics: A necessary symbiosis in medical titles	Valerie A. Elliston
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Myths 31–34 about English (6)	Alistair Reeves
	Not likely!!	Alistair Reeves
	Out on our own: From freelancers for freelancers	Alistair Reeves Sam Hamilton
	Raising the visibility of ‘small journals’: The Venezuelan Association of Biomedical Journal Editors (ASEREME)	Herbert Stegemann
	Report on the Basle Conference Freelance Business Forum—Incorporating contributions from the EMWA Freelance Email Discussion Forum	Alistair Reeves Sam Hamilton
	Spoken and written use of ‘one’ as a noun	Alistair Reeves
	Ten questions for… Wendy Kingdom	Wendy Kingdom
	The final quarter of my first year as a freelance medical writer	Sam Hamilton
	The joy of travelling	Joeyn Flauaus
	The Science Book Prize: What constitutes a good science book?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Title generators	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Titles in medical articles: What do we know about them?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Titles of research articles: Serbian experience	Sofija Micic
	What is a professor?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Would you call a relative of yours ‘that’?	Alistair Reeves
	Yoohoo! Self-marketing for freelancers and wannabes	Ursula Schoenberg

DO WE NEED PROOF?
Volume 16 Issue 3 (2007)
	4-letter words and others	Alistair Reeves
	A continuing personal account of my first year as a freelance medical writer	Sam Hamilton
	Are ‘QA findings’ always negative?	Alistair Reeves
	Authorship guidelines and ghostwriting, and using multiple publications to improve the reception of a single research study	Melanie Lee
	Breaking news	Wendy Kingdom
	Cross-over trials: Painful lessons	Richard Clark
	Do we need proof?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	EMWA Freelance Business Survey 2007	Alistair Reeves Sam Hamilton
	Goggling and Word tips	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Impact factor manipulation	Diana Epstein
	In the Bookstores... A book to squeeze into the gaps on a medical writer’s bookshelf	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	In the Bookstores... Standards on style and guidance on policy for medical journals	Karen Shashok
	Making the most of clinical trials publication	Madeline Frame
	Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	MISSING TITLE	Jenny Fanstone
	More ways editors can improve impact factors	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Multiple problems: Different or more of the same?	Alistair Reeves
	Out on our own: From freelancers for freelancers	Alistair Reeves Sam Hamilton
	Presenting freelance support for the freelance membership…	Sam Hamilton
	Reflections on terminology: Not ‘alternative’ medicine but integrative medicine	Jack Aslanian
	Risky business	Alistair Reeves
	Still more myths about English (5)	Alistair Reeves
	Successful cross-cultural communication requires us to test our assumptions	Geoff Hart
	The awful English language	Alistair Reeves
	To smiley or not to smiley?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Transparency in medical writing: Medical writers leading the way	Karen Shashok
	Webscout: Alternative and complementary therapies	Joeyn Flauaus
	What does scientific language prove?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	What makes science news?	Cathy Holding
	Word 2007—rejected with an invitation to revise and resubmit	Karen Shashok

THE COMMA
Volume 16 Issue 2 (2007)
	5 more myths about English (4)	Alistair Reeves
	Clinical Trial Disclosure: The ongoing debate on public registers for clinical trials	Kathy B. Thomas Claudia Tesch
	Eureka!	Alistair Reeves
	If in doubt, leave them out—or maybe not? Subtitle: Do the best you can!In the Bookstores... A Call to Make Patients Effective Partners in Medical Research	Alistair Reeves
	In the Bookstores...A Call to Make Patients Effective Partners in Medical Research	Karen Shashok
	In the Bookstores...Can You Trust What You Read in Medical Journals?	Karen Shashok
	In the Bookstores...Medical Writing for Managers
	MedDRA ‘preferred’ terms	Alistair Reeves
	Saving a brain drain: The Norwegian-Russian Centre for Medical Studies and a medical writer’s role in grant applications	Kari Skinningsrud
	UK vs US spelling pitfalls	Karen Shashok
	Using some comman sense	Ursula Schoenberg
	Why –ing forms can be confusing, and the power of hyphenation	Karen Shashok
	Why I don’t like using ‘using’	Karen Shashok

Issue 1 Volume 16 LEARNING/TEACHING MEDICAL WRITING

LEARNING/TEACHING MEDICAL WRITING
Volume 16 Issue 1 (2007)
	Conference highlight reports for marketing purposes: A cross between medical writing and journalism	Anita van den Oetelaar Hélène van Moorsel
	Investigative medical writing: Marrying medical writing and journalism	Catherine Mary

SCHWEINEREI
Volume 15 Issue 4 (2006)

BEHIND THE NET
Volume 15 Issue 3 (2006)

MEDICAL TRANSLATORS
Volume 15 Issue 2 (2006)

CLINICAL TRIALS
Volume 15 Issue 1 (2006)
	Dating made easy…	Alistair Reeves
	Medical writers in drug development and marketing	Keith Dawes Katherine Kauper
	Myths about English	Alistair Reeves
	The evolution of clinical trials	Susanna Dodgson

STATUS AND HEROES
Volume 14 Issue 4 (2005)
	Medical writing in a contract research organisation	Karen Donnelly

GREETINGS FROM MALTA
Volume 14 Issue 3 (2005)

LEARNING AND TEACHING
Volume 14 Issue 2 (2005)
	Medical journalism - a career move?	Jo Whelan

DIRECTION
Volume 14 Issue 1 (2005)

EDITING AND WRITING
Volume 13 Issue 3 (2004)
	A Poisoned Chalice? A Research Ethics View of the Clinical Trials Directive	Geoff Hall
	All Aboard the Jargonaunt	Paul Woolley
	All Gendered Up	Stephen de Looze
	Copy-editing in Science: a Life?	Maeve O'Connor
	Erratum: Subparagraphing in ‘A Bit of Culture’	Alistair Reeves Joy Burrough-Boenish
	From Over the Pond: How to become a Medical Writer	Susanna Dodgson
	In the Bookstores: A Style book with Style	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk: Editing and Writing	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Regular Column \| Hey, it's Only My Opinion: Stability	Diana Epstein
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Adam Jacobs
	Regular Column \| The Webscout: Discovering the World behind TWS	Joeyn Flauaus

Issue 2 Volume 13 ENRICHMENT THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE

ENRICHMENT THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Volume 13 Issue 2 (2004)
	A Bit of Culture	Joy Burrough-Boenish
	Animal Experimentation Regulations	Angela K. Turner
	Culture is the Most Crucial Issue in Mergers: Should this Concern Medical Writers?	Kari Skinningsrud
	Development of the Biomedical Press in Modern Russia	Eugene V. Roitman
	In the Bookstores: A Public Health Odyssey Retold	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Regular Column \| Hey, it's Only My Opinion	Diana Epstein
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Adam Jacobs
	Regular Column \| The Webscout	Joeyn Flauaus
	The Art of Counting Infinity (Part 1)	Rudolf Taschner
	The New EMWA Advanced Level Curriculum Programme	Stephen de Looze Beate Wieseler

Issue 1 Volume 13 FREELANCING: GOING IT ALONE

FREELANCING: GOING IT ALONE
Volume 13 Issue 1 (2004)
	A Two-sided Test of Normality (Life as a Statistician in the World of Medical Writers)	Kerry Gordon
	Don't Just Say "No"	Ben Young
	EMWA Freelance and Small Business Survey 2003	Barry Drees Alistair Reeves
	How to Survive in Budapest	Laszlo Novak
	In the Bookstores: How Not to Say What You Mean: a Dictionary of Euphemisms	John Kirkman
	In the Bookstores: Moving Information Out of the Writer's Head and into the Reader's	Karen Shashok
	Pros and Cons of Being a Non-native English Speaker or Medical Writing in Lithuania	Vytautas Abraitisde
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk: Going it Alone - with Help	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Isabelle Thirolle
	Turning Down Work as a Freelance Medical Writer - Not for the Faint-hearted	Alison McIntosh

WHAT DO WE DO?
Volume 12 Issue 3 (2003)
	Eur-journal	Madeline Frame
	From Monologue to Dialogue: Engaging with the Public on Emerging Issues in Biomedical Research	Janet Salisbury
	"I can always freelance until I find a new job"	Lisa Ivil
	Information Mapping: Making Writing and Information Retrieval Easy	Ross Baird
	Life in the Underworld	Keith Dawes
	Regular Column \| From the (Deputy) Editor's Desk: What do we do?	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	Regular Column \| Hey, it's Only My Opinion: Happiness	Diana Epstein
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Isabelle Thirolle
	The First Ever EMWA Forum	Alison McIntosh
	The Society of Medical Writers	David Brooks
	What do I actually do?	Adam Jacobs

GETTING STARTED
Volume 12 Issue 2 (2003)
	Ethics with Ease	Elise Langdon-Neuner
	From Over the Pond: Better a Galley Slave in Turkey than a Freelance Writer in America	Susanna Dodgson
	Mentoring Medical Writers	Adrienne Edwards
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk: Endings and Beginnings	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Isabelle Thirolle
	Regular Column \| News From The EPDC	Wendy Kingdom
	The 12th Annual Conference in Lisbon, 14-17 May 2003	Nic Evans
	The Lighter Side: "A Writer - ooh, that is exciting...."	Nicola La Grue
	The Quizzical Conundrum of the Collective Noun	Ian Metcalfe
	Writing for a Small Biotechnology Start-up Company	Carol Wood

PROBLEM MANAGEMENT
Volume 12 Issue 1 (2003)
	Amsterdam 2002	Patricia Bünz
	Business Strategies for Freelancers and Small Businesses	Adam Jacobs
	From Over the Pond: Writing about HIV/AIDS	Susanna Dodgson
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk: The New Look	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Hey, it's Only My Opinion: Nutrition	Diana Epstein
	Regular Column \| In the Bookstores… Another Resource for Medical Writers and Journalists	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Julia Cooper
	Stage Fright: Not All Bad	Jenny Gretton

LEARNING NEVER STOPS
Volume 11 Issue 3 (2002)
	Clients are from Mars, Medical Writers are from Venus?	Alison Rapley
	Developing a Workshop for the EPDP	Alison McIntosh
	From Over the Pond: Medical Writing in the Delaware Valley	Susanna Dodgson
	Murder in the Cathedral	Geoff Hall
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk: Can an Old Dog Learn Some New Tricks?	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Hey, it's Only My Opinion: Membership	Diana Epstein
	Regular Column \| In the Bookstores… Good Advice for Getting Published	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Julia Cooper
	Your University Liaison Officer is on the Hunt for Help and Information	Teresa Roberts

NEW HORIZONS
Volume 11 Issue 2 (2002)
	New Horizons in Medical Writing: A Brief Overview of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Singapore	Jing Ping Yeo
	New Horizons in Medical Writing: Go for the Authorities - a Bio-psychological Point of View	Sylvia Hering
	News from the EMWA Professional Development Committee	Wendy Kingdom
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Hey, It's Only My Opinion	Diana Epstein
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Julia Cooper
	Shake that Sokaled Thing	Karen Shashok
	The 11th Annual EMWA Meeting: Yippee! Dumplings Again	Geoff Hall
	Why Not?	Patricia Bünz

Issue 4 Volume 10 CHALLENGING SITUATIONS

CHALLENGING SITUATIONS
Volume 10 Issue 4 (2001)
	Dealing with Workplace Bullying	Bryanie Shackell
	Medical Writing at Home	Alison McIntosh
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Slash the Slash - or, The Art of Not Being Oblique	Stephen de Looze
	The Changing Face of EMWA	Barry Drees

Issue 3 Volume 10 LIFE BEYOND CLINICAL STUDY REPORTS: AN INSIGHT INTO OTHER TYPES OF WRITING

LIFE BEYOND CLINICAL STUDY REPORTS: AN INSIGHT INTO OTHER TYPES OF WRITING
Volume 10 Issue 3 (2001)
	How to Publish in Biomedical Journals	Liz Wager
	In the Bookstores ... Not Just Another "How To"	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| From the (Deputy) Editor's Desk	Varsha Imber
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	SEX*, Drugs, and Writing Ads	Allan Johnson
	Simply Symposia	Katherine Hall
	Tenth Annual EMWA Meeting: Montpellier	Diana Klein-Franke
	The End of Medical Journals?	Tim Albert

INTERPERSONAL WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Volume 9 Issue 4 (2000)
	Brief Setting: the Neglected First Step	Tim Albert
	Do You Have What it Takes to Work in a Team?	Diana Klein-Franke
	In the Bookstores ... Practical Advice About Getting the Words to Flow	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| From the Editors Desk - Interpersonal Working Relationships	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| In the Spotlight ...	Allan Johnson
	Regular Column \| Message from the President ...	Keith Veitch
	Regular Column \| Networking - the Webscout	Amanda Bennett
	The Client from Hell: No Time, Not in the Mood - You Name It	Anne Bartz
	The Contractor-Client Relationship	Adam Jacobs

CELEBRATING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY
Volume 9 Issue 3 (2000)
	Becoming a Non-native English-speaking Freelance Medical Writer	Annemieke Van Hest
	In the Bookstores ... A New Resource for Teachers of Scientific Writing: Turning Data into Manuscripts	Karen Shashok
	Life after Medical Writing: Message from Outer Space	Leen Vanherle
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk - Celebrating Linguistic Diversity	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| From the Literature ... Reporting Results	Liz Wager
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Keith Veitch
	Regular Column \| Networking - the Webscout	Amanda Bennett
	Regulatory Questions and Answers: the Investigator's Brochure	Douglas Fiebig
	Rule Britannia, McDonald's and Other Things	Norbert de Clercq

EDUCATION ISSUE
Volume 9 Issue 2 (2000)
	EMWA Conference 2000: In Dublin's Fair City	Claire Wilson
	Good Publication Practice ...	Liz Wager Leni Grossman
	ICH E3 "Structure and Content of Clinical Study Reports" - Template or Guideline?	Stephen de Looze
	In the Spotlight ... Frieda Ebes: Freelance Medical Writer	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Keith Veitch
	The EMWA Professional Development Programme	Virginia Watson
	The Physical Side: Are You Indisposed as a Medical Writer?	Diana Klein-Franke

SPOTLIGHT ON ETHICS
Volume 9 Issue 1 (2000)
	A Three Day Conference in One Day ...	Debbie Jordan Diana Klein-Franke
	In the Bookstores ... Pride and Pressure to Publish - The Baltimore Affair	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Geoff Hall
	The Ethics of Medical Writing	Debra Landry
	The Fastest Pen in the West	Adam Jacobs
	The Medical Translator's Dilemma: Shall I, Shan't I?	Anne Bartz

SURVIVAL SKILLS ISSUE
Volume 8 Issue 4 (1999)
	Can Europe Become One?	Katharine Gladstone
	Ethics in Medical Writing	Debra Landry
	In the Bookstores ... Peering at Peer Review	Karen Shashok
	Pricing Strategies for Freelance Medical Writers	Laurie Lewis
	Regular Column \| From the Editor's Desk	Barry Drees
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Geoff Hall
	The Millenium Conference: Dublin 2000	Kay Duggan-Wells
	The Pleasure of Being a Non-native	Ernesta Palombo-Kinne

INTERNATIONAL ISSUE
Volume 8 Issue 3 (1999)
	From the Literature ... Networking - Websites of Interest	Julia Forjanic Klapproth
	In the Bookstores	Karen Shashok
	Regular Column \| Message from the President	Geoff Hall
	Regular Column \| The Editors Red Pencil	Barry Drees
	Special Feature \| Medical Writing in the Old World	Barry Drees
	Special Feature \| Medical Writing in the USA	Robert Jacoby
	Special Feature \| Scribbling in the Antipodes	Peter Hobbins
	Whats it all about?	Adam Jacobs
	Why Write Now?	Jane Mitchell

POSTCONFERENCE ISSUE
Volume 8 Issue 2 (1999)
	Regular Column \| From the President's Desk	Gerold Wilson
	Regular Column \| The Editor's Red Pencil	Barry Drees
	The Freelance Contract	Cathryn Evans
	The Non-natives are Restless: a Call for Dialogue	Hilde Joosen
	The Patient Information Sheet	Judi Proctor
	The Strange World of Adverse Events	Julia Cooper
	"You had to be there!" Eighth Annual Meeting in Copenhagen	Fiona Swain

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Volume 8 Issue 1 (1999)

THE ROLE OF THE WRITER
Volume 7 Issue 3 (1998)
	A Ghostly Reply: EMWA Member Responds to "A Ghostly Crew"	Elizabeth Wager
	Regular Column \| The Editor's Red Pencil	Barry Drees
	Reversing the Report-Production Process When Teaching Pharmaceutical Writing	Robert Bonk
	The Role of Medical Writing in Scientific Citizenship	Carrie Nielson
	View from the South	Daleen Krige
	Why Medical Writing?	Adam Jacobs

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