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...
Here are our March Medical News taking into account the most recent medical studies. 5 or 2 types of diabetes? Recent medical studies shows that diabetes pacients could be more accurately treated by dividing the desease in 5 clusters instead of 2. The reason concerns diabetes heterogeneity,...
It’s a fact that the current largest healthcare approach is a reactive one. ¿Is personalized lifestyle medicine the new approach required to defeat non-communicable diseases? Although sick care can be precise for severe diseases, several medical studies and their translations show that in today’s world, with an...
After analysing several studies carried out in different countries on patient satisfaction rate when medical interpreters were provided or needed, we are glad to share our conclusions or interpretation. We say our interpretation, because the studies are not homogeneous, they analyse different interpreting services, classifications are not...
Here are Okomeds’ February news. Enjoy! 1.- Diabetes mellitus type 2 and sleep problems There is a link between diabetes, blood glucose levels and good sleep habits. When you sleep well it is easier for the pancreas to establish the proper insulin levels in blood. The number of...
Have you ever noticed how many diets are there that exclude food components from the daily meals. They are called “free … diet” and they are supposed to be good for our health. Some examples include the gluten-free diets or the lactose-free diets (specialists say...