Who we are:

Neil Osterweil and Nancy Baron

What we do:

Osterweil & Baron Communications provides expert medical writing and editing services to both corporate and not-for-profit clients in North America and Europe. We specialize in translating highly complex scientific and technical information into clear,  entertaining, and readable prose for audiences with widely varying degrees of medical knowledge.

Professional services we provide:

Advertising copy - Annual reports - Backgrounders - Brochures - Case statements - Clinical news - Copy editing 
Editing - Educational/training materials - Feature articles - Fundraising materials - Grant proposals - Market analysis -
Medical and scientific meeting coverage - News - Newsletters - Press kits -Research - Sales material - Speeches -
Viewbooks - Web content

Publications we've written for:

Cosmetic Surgery Times - Dermatology Times - Geriatrics - Hospital Formulary - Massachusetts Medicine
Medscape Medical News - Modern Medicine - Ocular Surgery News - Ophthalmology Times - Rehabilitation Today
Urology Times - WebMD

Medical specialties we cover:

AIDS/HIV - Biomedical sciences - Biopharmaceuticals - Cardiology - Consumer health - Dermatology - Diagnostics - Emergency medical services - Gastroenterology - Genetics and genomics - Geriatrics - Gynecology - Immunology - Immunotherapeutics - Infectious diseases - Intensive care - Neonatology - Nephrology - Neurology -Obstetrics - Oncology - Ophthalmology - Orthopedics - Pediatrics - Pharmaceuticals - Radiology - Rehabilitation - Stem cell research - Surgery -  Urology

Some of our clients:

Advanstar Communications, Inc. - Biogen, Inc. - Boehringer Mannheim, Inc. - CPE Communications, Inc. - Decision Resources, Inc. Find/SVP, Inc. - Massachusetts General Hospital - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Medical Education Network of Canada - Medscape - Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.- New England Eye Center - Paidos Healthcare, Inc. - PeerView Press - Schepens Eye Research Institue - Slack Inc. - Textbook Writers Associates, Inc. - Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. - WGBH Television - WebMD

Awards We Have Won:

Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2004
Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award, 2001
Frances Larsen Memorial Award for Excellence in Medical Article Writing, 1999
Write Stuff National Writing Competition, Medical/Science Writing Category, 1986

What the Washington Post's Senior Science Writer wrote about us:

"Osterweil's writing is literate, engaging and informative, a surprising combination when the subject is as difficult as is nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. It is one of the most technically obscure topics in all of medicine, but Osterweil made his story work, deftly weaving human interest angles with the technical details. There is enough human interest to engage the non-specialist reader but the story never stays light so long that the serious reader despairs of learning solid facts about the subject."

(Last modified: April 20, 2004)