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...
Making medical knowledge more widespread is crucial in order for patients to be up to date regarding new developments in inoculation, new treatments for some diseases, etc. The best tool for this are medical brochures. They provide basic data and advice regarding certain diseases, as well...
If you have to publish a paper in an international journal or translate a leaflet or other medical materials, you will need translation services. However, you may wonder you can do it yourself or whether you should work with a translation agency. Today, we at Okomeds...
Today we would like to take a look at the translatable medical documents with which we usually work in Okomeds. Over the next few days we will describe and explain each of them. To begin with, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is...
Medicine is one of the oldest branches of human knowledge. Most of its terms have Latin and Greek roots, and are still used in combination with more modern words. These characteristics mean that medical texts have a strongly objective nature and complete emotional neutrality. Bearing...
When a medical or healthcare specialist carries out a study, there comes the time to decide whether to submit it for publication in a journal. To do so, certain factors should be taken into account: language, specialisation, impact, etc. To facilitate this work, today we will...
As you know, there are many translation specialities, but medical translation is one of the specialities that require the highest degree of specialisation and dedication. This specialisation is due to the fact that it requires a high degree of precision and has a highly specialised language,...
The translation of Life Sciences is really important not only for the contents. A small mistake in a medical – health material can lead to important consequences. Getting an outstanding translation begins when contracting the agency you shall work with. By following these steps, you will...
When talking about biopsies, the first important concept we must take into account is that the sample (or specimen) obtained when a biopsy is done can be called “muestra” or “pieza” (“pieza de biopsia”) in Spanish: It is called “muestra” when removing a sample of...
Patients participating in clinical trial protocols usually have tests and procedures done with very different aims: diagnosing a condition, measuring a parameter, restoring a function, etc. They are as varied as the medical areas covered by protocols. We will try to outline terminological problems of...