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Discover how to write life-changing health content and grow your writing career. Explore the latest health communication research and get best-practice writing strategies that work.

Working with PhD students: Right, or wrong?

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Working with PhD students: Right, or wrong?

As it turns out, many of us have been approached by PhD students of various academic levels who have had no shame in asking us to write their essays and papers.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

Online networking for medical writers

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Online networking for medical writers

I can reveal, without a doubt, that I wouldn’t be where I am right now if it weren’t for networking.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

8 reasons why medical writers need blogs and websites

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Health Writer Hub Guest Author

8 reasons why medical writers need both blogs and websites

In today’s world, having your own web presence is essential.  If you do not have online presence these days, you might as well be invisible.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

Do you need a medical degree to write about medicine?

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Do you need a medical degree to be a health writer?

Confession: I’m a medical writer without a medical degree.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

Want to be a freelance medical writer? Read this first

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Want to be a freelance medical writer? Read this first

Career pathways and strategies are different for everyone, as we all have unique aims, objectives, needs and desires.

Filed Under: Freelance health & medical writing, Getting started in health writing

Health promotional materials: how to write compliant copy

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Health Writer Hub Guest Author

Health promotional materials: how to write compliant copy

Every country has their own legal requirements when it comes to writing health promotional materials. Do you know yours?

Filed Under: Health & medical copywriting, Health writing

7 tips for reporting on health under pressure

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

7 tips for writing under pressure

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t experience any sort of work stress – but, unfortunately, many of us are required to report under pressure.

Filed Under: Health writing

10 freelancing lessons the FIFA World Cup can teach you

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Health Writer Hub Guest Author

10 freelancing lessons the FIFA World Cup can teach you

Attempting to find worthwhile similarities between freelancing and FIFA’s social media record-shattering tournament seems like a bit of a stretch, right?

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

earning to handle writing criticism

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Health Writer Hub Guest Author

Learning to handle writing criticism

Not everyone who criticises what we write is envious. And not everyone who gives feedback is criticising your writing.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

Improve the way you write about medicine

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Improve the way you write about medicine

Do you find it increasingly difficult to write about medicine? Even if medical writing is what you do for a living?

Filed Under: Health writing

scientific literature review

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Health Writer Hub Guest Author

Scientific literature review article writing tips

There were many points at which I felt overwhelmed by the task of writing a scientific literature review article and didn’t see a clear path to finishing the article on time.

Filed Under: Health writing

Do you have social media and work-related FOMO?

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Health Writer Hub Guest Author

Do you have social media and work-related FOMO?

FOMO is the ‘fear of missing out’ and is commonly associated with our compulsive need to check and re-check social media and online media. Basically, we seek to stay informed at all times.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing

Cheap medical content outsourcing: a career threat?

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Is cheap outsourcing a career threat for medical writers?

Is cheap medical writing outsourcing a threat to your career, and do cheapered writers deliver the same quality content as professionals?

Filed Under: Freelance health & medical writing

health blog FAQs

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Michelle Guillemard

Health blog FAQs

Read the answers to the most frequently asked questions about starting a health blog for money, business and career development.

Filed Under: Health writing

The health writing business balancing act

LAST UPDATED: October 3, 2024 | AUTHOR: Dr Jocelyn Lowinger

The health writing business balancing act

Since I’ve been running a small health writing business I’ve found I needed to become a Jack of all trades, a master at weaving multiple competing activities into a seamless whole.

Filed Under: Freelance health & medical writing

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