There is a wide variety of medical documents. In today's post, we tell you what a PIL is. So, read on! A PIL - patient information leaflet - is a leaflet that contains specific information about a medicine product, such as its medical conditions, side effects...
Do you have a scientific translation to do and want some tips on how to get it done perfectly? You have probably already seen some tips to help with medical translations, but here we want to focus on scientific translation, as it has its own...
If you work in the medical translation field, pay attention to these practical tips which will ease your daily work. They will also make a more effective translation job, so give an opportunity to the following advices. - Feed up your medical knowledge If you studied a...
Florida, 1980. One of the most controversial and talked-about misunderstandings in history related to medical translation services took place with important consequences. A poisoned patient, a no-qualified medical interpreter, and a Spanish-English gap star this story with an unhappy end. What happened there will be...
For some years now research has pointed clearly to the strong link between effective doctor-patient communication and patient well-being. Good communication skills impact positively on many areas of patient care: from how well the patient understands their medical condition to how they feel about it...
Medical translation is not as easy as you may think. Translators have to pay attention to details, specially to false friends, which might be misleading. For a better explanation of this idea, Okomeds will give you some clear examples of medical translation from Spanish into...
Historically, informed consent forms (ICFs) have been far too complex for the average adult patient to understand. Full of jargon and convoluted language, they are barely intelligible by the patient...
Scientists have just discovered a protein responsible for ageing. We are talking about DOT1L. Science and translation are very linked, so medical translation and pharmaceutical translation are sidelong glancing at it. A rare disease called progeria is a genetic disorder wherein symptoms resembling aspects of ageing...
The translation of clinical trial protocols (CTPs) is a complicated business. CTPs are complex technical documents used to define and manage studies into the efficacy and safety of new treatments, drugs and medical devices. Errors in their translation can have grave consequences. [Sharer] The difficulties you face...
Although huge strides are being made in machine translation and its usefulness in certain contexts should not be ignored, medical translation is not yet one of them. By way of illustration, we refer you to some original research carried out by the British Medical Journal...