Sep 28, 2017 | News and Trends
Ellen Baum, PhD, Janssen Research & Development, LLC Predatory conferences are “for-profit, low-quality academic meetings that exploit researchers’ need to share and publish their research” (1) and have been variously described as “questionable” (2), “fraudulent,...
Sep 14, 2017 | News and Trends
Morgan C. Hill, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™, Infusion, Ashfield Healthcare Communications, part of UDG Healthcare, Middletown, CT, USA; Kenneth Pomerantz, PhD, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New Haven, CT, USA; Michael Mandola, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton,...
Aug 30, 2017 | News and Trends
Paul A. Petruzzi, DLitt, Deb Roney, MA, The Lockwood Group This article is part of the Medical Publications 101 article series, which serves as an introduction to various topics that are relevant to medical publication professionals. As medical publication...
Aug 11, 2017 | News and Trends
Karen King, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Jason Gardner, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Complete Medical Communications, a McCann Health Company, UK In the evolving landscape of medical publications, the question of whether to release study data as soon as they are available or to plan...
Jul 14, 2017 | News and Trends
John P. Gonzalez, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Solanum Medical Communications, The BioHub, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, UK Rigorous journal peer review ensures the quality of manuscripts and, ultimately, the credibility of the published literature. Peer reviewers should have...
Jun 29, 2017 | News and Trends
Antonia Panayi, BSc, MSc, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Slavka Baronikova, BSc, MSc, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Shire International GmbH Over the last few years, requirements for clinical trial transparency and data reporting have become more extensive to help patients and health care...
