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What is a medical breakthrough? Advice for reporters

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Dinethra Menon

What is a medical breakthrough? Advice for reporters

A new advancement in medicine or medical breakthrough is often met with praise.

Filed Under: Health writing

Is the best productivity tip ignore productivity tips?

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

Is the best productivity tip ignore productivity tips?

Ah productivity tips! Everyone is fluttering around them like teenage boys around the new pretty girl at school. Major online publications and business magazine are full to brim with them.

Filed Under: Health writing

Basic medical terminology - a guide to understanding key terms

LAST UPDATED: October 8, 2024 | AUTHOR: Dinethra Menon

Basic medical terminology – a guide to understanding key terms

If you’re faced with reading a complicated or unrecognisable medical term, having the right resources at your fingertips is essential.

Filed Under: Getting started in health writing, Health writing

Clinical trial design - an easy-to-understand overview

LAST UPDATED: August 29, 2023 | AUTHOR: Dinethra Menon

Clinical trial design – an easy-to-understand overview

Here’s an overview of clinical trial design – sometimes also referred to as clinical study design.

Filed Under: Health writing

The best medical dictionary apps for your writing

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

The best medical dictionary apps for your writing

Regardless of whether you have a background in medicine or you’re new to the health writing field, you should have at least one medical dictionary in your toolkit.

Filed Under: Health writing

Finding free journal articles online - tips and tricks

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

Finding free journal articles online – tips and tricks

As you know, it’s very hard to find free journal articles online. And I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but here goes.

Filed Under: Health writing

Misleading health copywriting and how to avoid it

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

Misleading health copywriting and how to avoid it

We see misleading health copywriting too often – on Facebook, online ads, print ads, TV ads, you name it.

Filed Under: Health & medical copywriting, Health writing

How to write quality content that readers understand

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

How to write quality content that readers understand

Improving the quality of writing improves the quality of thought. This, in turn, results in reader clarity.

Filed Under: Health writing

Medical writing vs health writing: a look at the scope

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

Medical writing vs health writing: a look at the scope

Medical writing. Health writing. Same same but different?

Filed Under: Health writing

work stress and writing

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

Work stress and writing: the truth about both

Your mental health can suffer if you are too anxious and experience too much work stress for too long.

Filed Under: 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

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

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

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