Mar 30, 2017 | News and Trends
Yi Han, PhD, Cello Health, Yardley, PA, USA; Jason McDonough, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™, Cello Health Communications, Yardley, PA, USA Evidence-based healthcare decision making is gaining global acceptance in both healthcare policy and clinical practice. Randomized controlled...
Mar 14, 2017 | News and Trends
Richard White, MA, PhD, Oxford PharmaGenesis Ltd, Oxford, UK; Jacob Willett, MPH, Oxford PharmaGenesis Inc., Newtown, PA, USA; Polly Field, MSc, DPhil, Oxford PharmaGenesis Ltd, Oxford, UK This article is part of the Medical Publications 101 article series, which...
Feb 27, 2017 | News and Trends
Jocalyn Clark, MSc, PhD, Executive Editor, The Lancet, and Former Executive Editor, icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) The growing availability and marketing of “predatory journals” – fake or fraudulent journals with...
Feb 14, 2017 | News and Trends
Dikran Toroser, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Amgen, Inc.; Kim Pepitone, ISMPP CMPPTM, Cactus Communications Since the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act) was enacted in 2010, questions about its provisions and ultimate impact on transparency have circulated among...
Jan 27, 2017 | News and Trends
Sandra Farley, ISMPP CMPPTM, Bristol-Myers Squibb; Alan Hempel, PharmD, JD, Bristol-Myers Squibb Patients have common and unique needs throughout the world. Global publication planning and execution is critical to ensure relevant data are available to health care...
Jan 25, 2017 | News and Trends
Ross Ruriani, MBA, Dove Medical Press, US; Sandra Lê, PhD, Dove Medical Press, UK; Lana Vegman, PharmD, Retrophin, Inc. Interest in video abstracts accompanying published manuscripts has been growing among authors and pharmaceutical company sponsors of clinical trials...