In this issue, the Medical Communications and Writing for Patients section features two articles. The first piece, by Simon Linacre,  is a summary of the excellent work just completed by the Med Comms SIG. They have devised, run, and collated the results of a survey on predatory publishing. The second piece, by Sampoorna Rappaz, is an update from the Med Comms SIG’s second Meet and Share session, which took place in November 2021. The session was titled Ethics in Publishing and covered the practical issues surrounding data integrity and authorship eligibility when writing manuscripts for clients.  Lisa Chamberlain James (editor)