Translational medicine, or evidence-based research, is a bidirectional concept. It aims to improve human health by determining the relevance of novel discoveries to disease, both coordinating knowledge and clinical practice and using direct human observation to characterize disease and generate new hypotheses. Medical translation is...
The evolution of the market, the technology, the market players, demands and requirements means changes for any sector. However, this is particularly true as regards pharmaceutical industry, which needs to face a more flexible, creative, innovative approach for the coming years, in order to deal...
Pharmaceutical translation has its own niche among translation services and the demand for specialised medical translators has increased in recent years. Focusing on the pharmaceutical industry, we easily land on global marketing authorisation approvals of the competent organisms worldwide, patents and clinical trials, protocol documents,...
Clinical translation can speed the knowledge that new discoveries imply and it can even serve to increase the research related to the discovery and its application. As an example, we are going to pick a recent discovery concerning stem cell therapies. We are referring to...
In today’s world, at least in developed countries, people tend to live longer. Therefore, research on curing or minimizing ailments has a huge field. At the same time, each treatment needs testing and approval in each country, and the needs for good medical translation is...
Clinical trials are more and more subject to outsource. In this sense, there has been an increase of 50% in the last decade and over 70% of the total number of clinical trials will be outsourced by 2020. This tendency is consolidating due to its advantages...
There is a need of translating new medical information from CROs research to bedside. This means that in this step medical translators take the findings of basic research and translate them into clinical investigations. However, there is another important translation step that according to recent studies,...
IMPORTANT LAW CHANGES AFFECTING CROs From 11 May, 2017, significant changes for drug development in China are taking place encouraging a new era for device, drug development and medical translation for CROs. CRO TENDENCIES As competition within the drug development landscape intensifies and clinical trial protocols become...
As we celebrated the Purple day this week, we are dedicating this post to epilepsy. It is important to raise concern of this disease among the population. And here, the medical translation and medical pamphlets, as part of communication, have an important role to play. Seizures are...
An average day job for medical transcriptionists, medical translators, and a lot of other jobs, includes sitting between 6 and 8 hours. That is a lot of time, don’t you think? There is a downside. Physicians can tell, and medical transcriptionists can transcript, that sitting for...