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Resources
Articles
"Starting a Home-Based Medical Writing Business In North Carolina"
(reprinted from
Carolina Connections
, Summer '03 issue)
"Professional Liability Insurance for Medical Writers"
(reprinted from
Carolina Connections
, Summer '03 issue)
Related Organizations
Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS)
Council of Science Editors (CSE)
Drug Information Association (DIA)
European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
European Medical Writers Associations (EMWA)
HTML Writers Guild
National AMWA
National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
Society for Technical Communication (STC)
STC Local Chapter
World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
Writing/Editing Resources
CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement
Editing for the Web
Elements of Style
Good Publication Practice
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Instructions for Authors - all health journals
MEDLINEplus
Medstract.org (acronyms database)
Plain English Handbook
RefDesk.com
Roget's
Thesaurus
, 1911 Edition
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
, 1913 Edition
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
YourDictionary.com
Medical Resources
CancerWeb Online Medical Dictionary
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Medscape
The Merck Manual
(searchable)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
National Health Information Center (NHIC)
National Institutes of Health
WebMD
Last updated: February 25, 2008