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…
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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…
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…
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 —…
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…
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…
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…
Our awards are known as the Oscars of health and medical journalism, so it’s no wonder the 2020 MJA Awards are headline news. The Daily Mail celebrated their writers’ wins…
Naimah Callachand I am a qualified pharmacist from Belfast, with 5 years experience in communications. Previous to working as the clinical editor of the Chemist+Druggist, my roles included; communications director…
UPDATE: Since writing this, the Chief Scientist and Chief Medical Officer have briefed specialists at the Science Media Centre on camera. Things move fast. LM MJA Chair, Lawrence McGinty on the…
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