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Insights, thoughts, events and interesting publications about plain language in healthcare

30th Apr 2024

ISMPP 2024: how discoverable are plain language summaries?

24th Jan 2024

ISMPP 2024: what opportunities are there for plain language summaries?

ESMO 2023 round-up
30th Oct 2023

ESMO 2023 round-up: addressing clinical trial disparities and solutions

22nd Aug 2023

What are the greatest challenges facing the medical writing field? an interview with Lisa Chamberlain James

21st Jun 2023

ASCO 2023 roundup: patient-centred communication

12th May 2023

ISMPP 2023: a round-up of the highlights this year 

24th Jan 2023

Plain language summaries at ISMPP EU 2023: Out of sight, out of mind?

11th Jul 2022

Opinion: Why plain language summaries should be the norm rather than a novelty

17th Jun 2022

Plain language summaries of publications in Future Oncology to mark Cancer Immunotherapy Month

25th Mar 2022

Peek Behind the Research: Do healthcare professionals really value plain language summaries?

25th Mar 2022

Peek Behind the Research: Seek and you will [potentially] find: the impact of plain language summary accessibility on engagement and wider dissemination

25th Mar 2022

Peek Behind the Research: Prevalence and characteristics of plain language summaries indexed in PubMed

25th Mar 2022

Peek Behind the Research: Analysis of reach for different formats of plain language summaries

25th Mar 2022

Peek Behind the Research: Do plain language summaries encourage readers to access your publication? A pilot study

15th Mar 2022

Harnessing the power of plain language summaries in cell and gene therapy research

14th Feb 2022

Could plain language summaries of publications be the much needed tool to help the public understand scientific data?

7th Feb 2022

Do plain language summaries have a place alongside health technology assessments?

4th Feb 2022

Peek Behind the Guidelines: Why the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy is now requiring authors to add plain language summaries

1st Feb 2022

Promoting the use of patient-sensitive language when talking about lung cancer

28th Jan 2022

Why early-career researchers should explain their work using plain language summaries 

25th Jan 2022

Ipsen pledge to publish plain language summaries for all their journal publications

21st Jan 2022

Could plain language summaries increase the public’s trust and understanding of vaccine research?

17th Jan 2022

Plain language summaries in psychology: Project PLan Psy by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology

13th Jan 2022

Do patients have a preference for formats of plain language summaries?

23rd Dec 2021

12 design principles to ensure patient information is easy to use and understand

3rd Dec 2021

Understanding research literature: a plain language guide to reading a scientific paper

9th Nov 2021

ISMPP-sponsored article on plain language summaries now published

8th Nov 2021

Future Science Group’s plain language summaries in lung cancer

3rd Nov 2021

Oncology Central features top 5 plain language summaries published in Future Oncology

2nd Nov 2021

Open Access Week 2021: Webinar on the Open Pharma recommendations for plain language summaries

1st Oct 2021

October is Health Literacy Month

29th Sep 2021

Increasing accessibilty of plain language summaries through translations

23rd Sep 2021

Open Pharma recommendations for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications

21st Sep 2021

Why researchers and scientists must use plain language when discussing their work

20th Aug 2021

Understanding the different types of plain language summary

12th Aug 2021

Developing publication plain language summaries: Insights from Pfizer

14th Jul 2021

Developing plain language summaries of research studies: Lessons from PCORI

28th Jun 2021

PREPRINT: Open Pharma recommendations for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications

23rd Jun 2021

Future Science Group shortlisted for ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2021

10th Jun 2021

Should plain language summaries be a requirement for all journal submissions? The Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth thinks so.

9th Jun 2021

‘How-To’ Guide for the development and dissemination of plain language summaries of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations

2nd Jun 2021

Tips to ensure plain language summaries are discovered and read

31st May 2021

17th Annual Meeting of ISMPP Highlights: Current state and challenges for plain-language summary development in Japan

25th May 2021

17th Annual Meeting of ISMPP Highlights: Are plain language summaries of health economic publications needed for patients and non-expert audiences?

20th May 2021

CISCRP Webinar: Plain Language Summaries of Publications (PLSP)

14th Apr 2021

Five tips to optimize plain language summaries for a global audience

7th Apr 2021

European Medicines Agency’s Medical Terms Simplifier

26th Mar 2021

Open Pharma and PFMD public consultations on plain language summaries of publications

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