Medical device innovation and marketing is almost always an international phenomenon. A medical device that improves the detection of pressure sores, for example, may indeed have been developed in say Japan, but its usefulness, once tests have proved that it is safe and effective is global. Medical device translation is an extremely important part of any […]
Medical knowledge, like medical science, is universal. It doesn’t belong to a single individual or nation, even if much of the work that has lead to anyone medical breakthrough is the work of a research organization, or research team, based in one particular country.
As with just about every industry today, products are being marketed to the international community. In most cases, whether it’s a product handbook or a warranty document, accuracy is important in professional medical translation and that means 100% accuracy. If there is even one mistake in either a pharmaceutical translation or a medical device translation […]
Translation is a field that involves all sorts of disciplines, from the translation of legal documents, scientific documents to business documents, medical device documents and even veterinary translation services. Animal lovers and owners and even farmers these days don’t necessarily live in their country of origin. Even though they consider themselves fluent when they relocate […]
Language is so much based on context that when a lot of time has been spent writing a text it still may be open to the way the reader interprets it. This is even true with translations. It is only those translations that have been completed by a highly trained and experienced translator will mean […]
Before a drug is released for public use it has to undergo thorough trials some of which take more than 10 years to complete and can cost at least a million dollars. Not all clinical trials necessarily take place where the drug is produced and these days many take place in Asian countries where the […]
In the European Union (EU) alone, the medical devices industry attracts yearly sales that exceed 95 billion euro. It also employs 570,000 people. The EU has 24 official languages that are spread throughout 28 states, 9 more remote regions and 21 territories and overseas countries. If a medical device is to be marketed in the […]
Science translations are more important today than they have ever been. More and more research is being carried out in universities and scientific research institutes in a multitude of languages. For the data collected in research projects there is a need to spread the information far and wide across the globe so that the data can […]
It may not be generally known that many clinical trials of drugs are actually carried out in developing countries. That includes clinical trials which are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
When choosing a medical translation service, you need an expert medical translator who really knows the medical translation business well.
