Best-selling British author Sir Terry Pratchett, former prime ministers of Australia and Norway, memoirist Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) and some of the world’s top mental health experts are among the line-up of writers featured in this month’s Journal of Mental Health.  The special issue focusing on diagnosing mental illness – which comes out just weeks after the eagerly-awaited new draft of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the global diagnostic ‘bible’ for the field of mental health medicine – includes a series of articles written by high profile mainstream personalities on what a diagnosis of mental illness has meant to them.

The Medical Publishing Insights and Practices Initiative (MPIP), a project co-sponsored by members of the pharmaceutical industry and the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP), will publish its Author Toolkit in the August issue of Current Medical Research & Opinion (CMRO), an Informa Healthcare title. The guidelines, entitled “Authors’ Submission Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Research Published”, mark a major step in industry and biomedical journal collaboration to raise standards and increase efficiency in publishing industry-sponsored studies.

The global publisher Informa Healthcare has announced today that all of its 170 journals have been accepted for membership by the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). This follows a long-standing commitment by the publisher to the advancement of publication ethics, particularly in relation to issues raised by research funded by the pharmaceutical industry...

New Journal to Offer Rapid Publication of Specialized Interest Research
Informa Healthcare announced today that it will be launching its first open-access journal, the Journal of Drug Assessment (JDA). The online, peer-reviewed journal will focus on the rapid publication of specialized interest research, including inconclusive and negative clinical trial results. The journal will be launched this autumn...