Is 2026 an “axis year” for medical writing? AI, cost pressure, regulatory complexity, and geopolitics may be reshaping the profession faster than we realise. A timely reflection on what’s changing—and what still matters. niche.org.uk/medical-writ...

CSRs used to be 30 pages. Now the synopsis can be 20+. Trial complexity is up. Risk aversion means everything stays in.

But longer ≠ better.

Concise, focused reports help regulators, patients & approvals. Lean CSR writing isn’t cutting corners it’s cutting clutter. 👇 niche.org.uk/increasingcsr

40 years of regulatory submissions. Same gold-standard document.

Now some want to rename it. Change without endorsement isn’t modernisation. It’s semantics.

Patients need better summaries, not rebranded appendices.

Substance > semantics. 📄

👇 Read why niche.org.uk/ctrcsr

Feeling like you manage a team, but your inbox manages you? Outlook is meant to empower us, but has it instead turned us into reactive responders, outsourcing our memory, judgment, and even leadership to an app? Do you know how you will take back control? www.linkedin.com/pulse/ms-out...

As writers we know that sentence length shapes how readers move through a text: it controls pace, emphasis, and, crucially, whether people keep reading. Short sentences pull us forward. Longer ones invite reflection. niche.org.uk/size-is-impo...

Efficient document editing using a three-phase workflow. Written long before large language models began offering instant rewrites and automated suggestions (in 2012), this article sets out a thoughtful, disciplined approach to editing and its value niche.org.uk/manuscript-e...

📢 Patient Voice Matters — Even in Your Clinical Study Report. We’ve all focused on endpoints, biomarkers and safety signals — but are we truly capturing what matters most to patients? 🧠👩‍⚕️Read the full article here: niche.org.uk/proscsr

Niche Science and Technology put together some great guides on different aspects of regulatory writing and medical communications. This Insight into writing Clinical Study Reports is a must-read for medical writers and anyone else planning to compose one of these key regulatory documents

The findings of a study in Nature Immunology shed vital insight into the role of CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis and support an important role of Epstein–Barr virus in MS immunopathology. #Immunosky #medsky 🧪

2025 in Review: Ten Medical Breakthroughs: 🚀 The Year Your Cells Got Smarter, Your Gut Got Chatty, and AI Learned to Explain Itself. www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-r...

Rural providers struggle to balance care with systemic poverty.

This study explores how financial stress and limited resources overwhelm patient capacity. A vital look at the gap between clinical demands and rural poverty.
#RuralHealth #HealthEquity #PrimaryCare

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New paper mill detection model flags 10% of all cancer articles as potentially coming from paper mills.

Huge congratulations @baptscc.bsky.social on an incredible first published paper with @aidybarnett.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social
#researchIntegrity #papermills

Knowledge pollution! 👇

"...more than 250,000 cancer research papers that may have been produced by so-called 'paper mills.''

"Flagged papers have increased dramatically over two decades, rising from around 1% in the early 2000s and peaking at over 16% in 2022."

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A Spanish research team led by Mariano Barbacid reported a major breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research after successfully eliminating aggressive tumors in mice using a combination drug approach.