The Medical Journalists’ Association is delighted to announce that statistician and science communicator extraordinaire, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, will be presented with the MJA Lifetime Achievement Award at our 2021 Read more…
Another week brings another clutch of awards trophies for MJA members, this time from the British Society of Magazine Editors. Eleanor Philpotts from Pulse picked up the prize for Best Read more…
Alastair McLellan — who has steered the Health Service Journal from success to success — has won this year’s Professional Publications Association Editor of the Year Award. Given the year Read more…
Plasma donation for the manufacture of a medicine – known as Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG)- restarted in April 2021. This is first time plasma had been donated in the UK in Read more…
Oliver Gille, 1937-2021: Sixty years ago medicine was the most publicly silent, and privately critical, of professions. Medical debate had been restricted largely to learned journals, medical common rooms, scientific Read more…
Please say hi to those new members that submitted a short biog and image on joining. The EC would like to welcome them and all other new members to the Read more…
Medical Journalists’ Association treasure, Dr Alan Maryon-Davis, was awarded an MBE for services to public health in the New Year Honours. Alan has been a valued member of the MJA — Read more…
We’re delighted to announce that Elisabeth Mahase and Emma Wilkinson have now joined the Executive Committee, and Nigel Praities, executive editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal, has agreed to become a Read more…
Lawrence McGinty remembers a legendary health journalist: Bernard Dixon, who died on 30 October, was my editor at New Scientist for seven years, during which time I learned my trade Read more…
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust beat tough competition from some of the UK’s leading communications agencies to win the coveted MJA Award for Excellence in PR. Their winning campaign was a Read more…
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