Life Sciences, Pharma & MedComms
Scientific rigour for medical affairs
Reviews, manuscripts and educational content delivered to clear methods and review standards.
Deliverables
How we support your team
Evidence reviews
Literature and rapid reviews with clear method.
Scientific writing
Manuscripts, decks and posters.
Educational content
Clinically-reviewed, provenance-labelled.
The pressures on medical affairs
Throughput, accuracy and compliance — all at once
Medical affairs and medical communications teams are asked to produce a rising volume of scientifically robust material against tightening timelines, while every output has to withstand medical, legal and regulatory review. Internal teams are deep in launch and lifecycle work, so the marginal manuscript, congress poster or rapid evidence review competes for bandwidth that is simply not there. Reaching for additional capacity is straightforward; reaching for capacity that already understands clinical method and the boundaries of promotional versus educational content is harder.
That boundary is where most risk sits. Educational and disease-awareness material must be balanced, evidence-led and clearly distinct from promotional claims, and the evidence behind it has to be traceable. We build every deliverable with explicit methods and a defined review workflow, and we flag clearly where your own medical sign-off or compliance review is required — we add scientific rigour and capacity, we do not substitute for your governance.
Who we partner with
Across the medical-affairs value chain
Medical affairs teams
MSL enablement materials, evidence reviews and scientific narratives that hold up to review.
MedComms agencies
Overflow writing and independent clinical review when your own pipeline peaks.
Publications leads
Manuscripts, abstracts and congress materials prepared to good-publication practice.
Medical education functions
Independent, balanced educational content with clear provenance and clinical review.
A typical project starts with a tight brief and ends with a fixed-fee deliverable carrying clear methods, references and a review trail. Where a project needs structured evidence synthesis, our research and scientific writing service handles literature and rapid reviews; where you need a clinical lens on data or real-world outcomes, our healthcare data analytics capability can support the interpretation behind the narrative.
How a project runs
Rigour built in, not bolted on
- Brief and method. We agree the question, the scope and the evidence approach up front — search strategy for a review, target journal and authorship model for a manuscript, learning outcomes for educational content.
- Draft with provenance. Every claim is traceable to its source as the work is written, so references and methods are part of the deliverable rather than a retrofit.
- Independent clinical review. A suitably qualified clinician reviews for accuracy and balance before hand-over; for niche therapy areas we draw on our expert network.
- Hand-over for your sign-off. You receive the deliverable with its method, references and review trail, and clear markers showing where your own medical, legal and regulatory review is required.
This is how we follow recognised good-publication-practice and ICMJE authorship principles in practice: named authors retain control of and accountability for the content, and any writing support we provide is disclosed appropriately. The result is material that withstands review because the rigour was designed in from the brief.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
What deliverables do you produce?
Literature and rapid reviews, manuscripts, slide decks, posters and clinically-reviewed educational content — with clear methods and a defined review workflow.
Do you observe medico-legal review boundaries?
Yes. We work within agreed scope and medico-legal/compliance boundaries, and flag where your internal review or sign-off is required.
Can you support medical education programmes?
Yes — independent, evidence-led content and CME, with provenance and review. See Research & Scientific Writing.
How do you handle authorship and ICMJE standards?
We follow recognised good-publication-practice and ICMJE authorship principles. Where we provide writing support, that contribution is disclosed appropriately, and named authors retain control of content and accountability for the work.
Can you provide clinical reviewers from specific therapy areas?
Yes. We can bring in clinicians with relevant specialty experience through our expert network to review or advise on content, helping ensure scientific accuracy and clinical relevance for your therapy area.
How quickly can you turn a deliverable around?
It depends on scope and the depth of evidence review required, but most discrete deliverables — a rapid review, a manuscript draft, a congress poster — run on a defined timeline agreed at briefing, with the review trail built in rather than bolted on at the end. We are explicit at the outset about what is achievable without cutting the methodological or review steps that make the output defensible.
How do you keep educational content non-promotional?
We separate educational and disease-awareness material from anything promotional by design: balanced framing, evidence that is traceable to source, and explicit flags where your medical, legal and regulatory review must sign off. We add scientific rigour and capacity; the promotional/educational boundary and its sign-off remain governed by your compliance function.
Brief a project
Share your scope and timeline for a fixed-fee proposal.