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May 20, 2025

Medical writing −our core business activity− is a key component of clinical research. Clinical research refers to all research carried out on humans. To raise awareness of the importance of this type of research, International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated worldwide each year on the anniversary of research initiated by James Lind on May 20, 1747, a study which is now considered to be the first ever clinical trial.

March 10, 2025

Brain Awareness Week is taking place from the 10^th to the 16^th of March 2025!

Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to raise awareness of the importance and benefits of brain research. The campaign was first launched by the Dana Foundation in the United States in 1996, and has since become a worldwide celebration of brain science.

February 28, 2025

We support Rare Disease Day (RDD) 2025!

Since 2008, the last day of February has been dedicated to raising public awareness of rare diseases. Each rare disease affects less than 1 in 2,000 people, but because nearly 7,000 rare diseases have been identified so far, altogether these diseases concern more than 300 million people worldwide (excluding caregivers)!

The European campaign is coordinated by EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe. This year, the slogan is “More than you can imagine“.

February 4, 2025

February 4, 2025, marks World Cancer Day!

This annual international awareness day, led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) since 2000, helps to unite and support the cancer community and mobilize individuals, organizations and governments to ensure that cancer prevention, reduction of the global cancer burden, and equitable access to cancer treatment and care, remain a top priority for global health.

January 31, 2025

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is a working group of editors from general medical journals*. Each year, its members update the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.

Each medical writer in our team follows the recommendations developed by the ICMJE to write manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, in parallel with the appropriate study-specific EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUALITY and Transparency Of health Research) guidelines and the instructions to authors for the target journal. The January 2025 update of the ICMJE recommendations has just been published.

January 23, 2025

The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) is a “statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human participants”. Adopted for the first time in June 1964 in the Finnish capital, it was amended for the 9^th time during the 75^th General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA), which again returned to Helsinki in October 2024. The English version of this latest revision was published on the WMA website on December 13, 2024.

Our medical writing team assists clients in the drafting of the regulatory and clinical documentation necessary for the implementation of medical research, and in the writing of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals reporting the research results. It was therefore important for us to share this news!

We analyzed the changes made in the 2024 version, 11 years after the previous update.

October 25, 2024

This year, the annual Santé Active Edition – Synergy Pharm team seminar took place in the area around Bordeaux!

The seminar provided an excellent opportunity to discuss current and future medical and scientific writing projects.

September 13, 2024

Acne vulgaris mainly affects teenagers, but it can also affect adults as either a persistent or a late-onset disorder. In addition to having an aesthetic impact, this skin disorder also affects the emotional wellbeing of affected individuals. The development of acne lesions results from various factors, with recent studies showing that dysregulation of the skin microbiota plays a major role.

May 31, 2024

The incidence of skin cancer continues to rise, even though the risk factors are well known. Skin Cancer Awareness Month takes place every May to remind people of the preventive and early detection measures for this type of cancer, with the aim of reversing this trend and improving outcomes.

Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation: a major risk factor for skin cancer

Every year, around 1.5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed worldwide*. More than 85% of these cancers are attributable to excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation*.

May 20, 2024

Clinical research is in the spotlight all around the world each year on May 20. Today, Santé Active Edition – Synergy Pharm, a company specializing in medical writing, is celebrating Clinical Trials Day!