Understanding the Impact of Insomnia on Mental Health
Sleep and its discontents We have all heard the common refrain of, ‘I didn’t get any sleep last night.’ In fact, I’d hazard a guess that we’ve all uttered something…
Ryan Chandler is a medical writer from Auckland, New Zealand. He is a self-proclaimed statistics nerd and has a - bordering on unhealthy - obsession with grammar and punctuation. With over a decade in medical writing for health care professionals, patients, and consumers, Ryan enjoys crafting content from arcane sources (namely, medical journals) into digestible morsels for everyday mortals to consume.
The ethical challenge of human challenge trials
Believe it or not, it is generally unethical to deliberately infect someone with a disease (not the best way to start a medical communications piece, but bear with me). However,…
Gene therapy: Editing the Blueprint of Life
Gene therapy is subject to many of the platitudes that are endemic to medical communication – ‘ground-breaking’, ‘miracle cure’, unprecedented’ – the list goes on. It is, as always, more…