Physicians should be reminded of the potential for medication errors by pet-owning patients and veterinarians as a result of self-medication. This was the message from a case reported in a clinical communication to the editor by Harmeet Singh Narula, MD, from the Department of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, in this month’s American Journal of…
A couple of months ago I received an email from a gentleman called Paul, from Georgia. He asked if I had any tips on getting into regulatory writing. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be of much help to him since this is not an area of writing in which I work. d Regulatory Writing Regulatory…
In my last post, I mentioned that I had covered a medical conference in Boston last week. I received a few emails in response, from people who’d read the post and had some questions about what medical writers do when covering a conference. Anne Marie from St. Paul, MN, was curious about how, if at…
This weekend I’ve been covering this year’s Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Boston. My specific assignment was to write news articles on endocrinology presentations there, but there was so much going on outside of the endocrine world! It’s been a busy couple of days, but I’ve just emerged from the tunnel! I…
Strangely enough, after reposting my Marketing By Warm Email Prospecting – Part II after a “missing link” incident, I came across a Facebook update by Ed Gandia that same evening. He is once again making his free training series available via his website, but only for a few days. So don’t miss out on the opportunity – head…
Another post that I’m resurrecting because its link disappeared as I transitioned to my self-hosted site! Listeriosis Last year we experienced the biggest food-borne outbreak of listeriosis in this country in over 20 years. At least 30 people across 12 states had died as a result of eating tainted cantaloupes that were linked to…
This is a duplicate of a post that I shared a few months ago – for some reason, in the transition to my self-hosted site here, the link became dysfunctional! So I’m just reposting it for completion since it is a “Part II”. Recently I mentioned that I’ve been listening to some webinars by Ed Gandia…
Well it’s a good feeling to have Tax Week behind us. I’ve always dealt with my own taxes, they’ve never been particularly difficult to cope with. But this year I decided to get the help of a CPA. It’s something I’ve always thought about doing, but have just never been organized enough to do. Usually…
We seem to see new headlines about the diabetes epidemic every week. Typically we tend to think of increasing diabetes in terms of the type 2 form of the disease, because of the increased incidence of obesity and poor lifestyle choices. However, there is also plenty of evidence that type 1 diabetes is also on…
Listeriosis Last year we experienced the biggest food-borne outbreak of listeriosis in this country in over 20 years. At last count, 30 people across 28 states had died as a result of eating tainted cantaloupes that were linked to one Colorado farm. And a total of 146 cases were confirmed in this outbreak. The causative bacterial organism, Listeria…
