Lecture 1

Question 1

what is the focus/aim of academia writing

Answer 1

-record of new knowledge

Question 2

what is the focus/aim of pharmaceutical writing

Answer 2

record of new/better drug for indicated disease

Question 3

name the 4 types of science documentation

Answer 3

-lab notebooks
-patents applications
-peer reviews
-regulatory submission

Question 4

true or false: lab notebooks are super restricted in pharmaceutical

Answer 4

true

Question 5

what are regulatory submission

Answer 5

technical reports and clinical trials reports for each of the different sections IND (investigational new drug app) , or NDA (new drug app)

Question 6

what do docs look at

Answer 6

the highlights of prescribing information

Question 7

what is the indication

Answer 7

specific disease state, targeted patient population

Question 8

what are the adverse reactions

Answer 8

side effects and immununogenicity

Question 9

what are the drug interaction

Answer 9

PK effects on other drugs

Question 10

what are pharmacodynamics

Answer 10

what does the drug do to the body

Question 11

what are pharmacokinetics

Answer 11

what does the body to the drug

Question 12

what is single blind

Answer 12

author don’t know who is the reviewer

Question 13

what is double blind

Answer 13

the author nor the reviewer know each other

Question 14

what are open reviewers

Answer 14

anyone can know who is the reviewer

Question 15

what is post pub review

Answer 15

review after the atricle has been published

Question 16

what is the % of margins for big publishers

Answer 16

30%wha

Question 17

what is wrong with the world of scientific publishing

Answer 17

-a business model based on greed that is condoned by government and academia
-sustained by perverse incentives aka publish or perish

Question 18

what are the big names in the publishing industry

Answer 18

-springer
-taylor and francis
-wiley-blackwell
-sage
-elsevier

Question 19

what is the revenue for the big 5 companies

Answer 19

90 billion