Sport, health, and translation
September is a month in which many people decide to do sport and eat better for different reasons: health, fitness, feeling better with one's self, feeling more handsome or beautiful...
Medical Translation
Medical translation is going back to school
Bye bye holidays? Now it is time to go back to school, even for medical translation. If you want to deal with the return to work with the homework done, do not hesitate to lead the way. For your professional purposes, here is a list...
Most common mistakes in medical language
Being a doctor or a health specialist does not mean to speak a correct medical language. In fact, those people make many linguistic mistakes while writing reports or while talking to their patients. Misspelling or the use of wrong words instead of the good ones...
Get ready for the Olympics
Olympics in Rio have just started and such an international big event evidences the need of quality translations. Thousands of people all over the world - both sportsmen and tourists - are heading to Brazil. There are many aspects that must be carefully watched, but...
Smile with your dental translation
Dental translation is a growing market in the specialized translation sector. It offers many different kind of services related to dental care and all of them require information to be translated from one language into other. Health is at stake, and the tooth sector is important...
A quick and safe medical translation
A medical translation is a part of a whole medical process where many factors and areas take their slice. From science to tests with patients or elaboration of drugs...
Best films for doctors and medical students
If you have a strong relationship with medicine, both being a student or a professional in said sector, you should watch the following films. They all made a reflexion about certain areas related to health from different points of view, which is essential for any...
Data for trusting a medical translation boost in UK
In Okomeds we recently wrote about some shocking figures related to medical translation and interpreting. One of the examples made a reference to UK, the country all over the world that dedicates a bigger amount of public money to translators and interpreters - around £100...
5 secrets about medical tourism in Europe
Medical tourism means traveling abroad with a clear aim: obtaining a medical treatment in such country. People trust medical tourism because of different reasons, the most common ones are the followings: a more competitive pricing, a wider medical offer, and a more developed and quality...
How would be a world without medical translations?
Have you ever imagined how would be a world with no medical translations? It would certainly be very different to the current one we are living in. Healthcare and medicine would have not improved so much because of a lack of communication. Medical translation eases...