Dec 19, 2018 | News and Trends
“The Year in Review/The Year Ahead” is designed to spotlight notable topics in 2018 and assess potential impact for the coming year. The topics were suggested by The MAP Working Group, then matched with subject matter experts. Commentary and perspective clarify each...
Dec 13, 2018 | News and Trends
Yvonne E. Yarker, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™, Medicite LLC, Yardley, PA, USA On September 8, 2018, the New York Times, in collaboration with ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism group, reported that a leading oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
Nov 28, 2018 | News and Trends
Molly E. Hoke, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™ This article summarizes a robust discussion held on May 1, 2018, during a roundtable session entitled “Industry–Agency Relationship — Working as a True Team” at the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Medical...
Nov 14, 2018 | News and Trends
Ira Mills, PhD, PAREXEL International The question of how much value professional medical writers add to the development of medical publications has arisen regularly over the past couple of decades, and recent studies have aimed to provide an answer. The American...
Oct 30, 2018 | News and Trends
John P. Gonzalez, PhD, CMPP, Solanum Medical Communications, Macclesfield, UK Calls for urgent improvements in the design, registration, reporting, and transparency of preclinical studies have recently arisen (1). In an open letter to the USA Today newspaper published...
Sep 26, 2018 | News and Trends
Tom Drake, MA, CMPP, Global Outcomes Group, Reston, VA Publication professionals work in an industry experiencing a shift in required evidence related to a product’s value, as well as its safety and efficacy. They manage the release of clinical and economic data that...
