This particular presentation was one of the last of the whole conference; an unenviable place to be as most delegates have left/are leaving. However, this session was unusually well attended…
Breast cancer is a global healthcare concern. It’s the most common cancer in the world among women – 12.4% of women in the US alone will develop it over the…
Unlike many communications agencies who flock to Manchester, Cheshire or London, Rx Communications has chosen to base its headquarters in the ancient Welsh town of yr Wyddgrug, or Mold, (if you…
I recently attended the DIA 2019 in San Diego. It was fascinating listening to all the different talks and realising the advances in science that will undoubtedly help with clinical…
Jaye Bea Smalley from Celgene and Linda Brennan from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ran a workshop at the DIA (International Meeting for the Drug Information Association) on this topic using the…
In the past, no-one would have considered social media as an essential part of patient engagement, let alone patient recruitment. However, Neil Weisman from Continuum Clinical explained during a session…
We were in sunny San Diego (not) at the 55th annual DIA meeting. The catchphrase this year is “connect and ascend” and there is a great emphasis on getting…
At a recent Summit in Miami, the emphasis for pharma, biotech and devices companies was overcoming the challenges of rare diseases.
ISPOR meetings are a great place for meeting old friends, making new acquaintances and finding out about the latest research in health economics and outcomes.
The annual ISPOR meeting held at Baltimore in May 2018 was no exception; however, from a medical communications agency’s perspective, there was one general observation – the standard of medical writing and presentation was appalling.
Predatory journals are scam publishers that charge authors fees upfront, but do not provide the service they promise. The majority of these predatory journals will take payments without ever publishing the work, while others publish articles without any form of an editorial or peer review process.
