Facebook: Connecting Us to Health?
With one in four persons connected to the internet, even in developing countries, is social media a great information equalizer? Looking...
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- Dec 3, 2012
In Your Face: Translation and Social Media
Happy Birthday In Arrears Birthday wishes have made a big comeback with Facebook, since we get weekly reminders and don’t actually have...
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- Nov 26, 2012
Culture-Based Triggers
There are many psychological predictive models that attempt to explain human health behavior. From the old school Health Belief model,...
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- Oct 30, 2012
Pharma Companies Can Weather the Storm
As hurricane Sandy meets a turning gulf stream and a nor’easter winter storm to unleash havoc on the Mid-Atlantic region, so too is the...
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- Oct 7, 2012
Translating Idioms: Not Quite a Dime a Dozen
While they can be dismissed as unimportant parts of speech, idioms add spice and life to a language. They are born from their culture of...
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- Sep 24, 2012
Why Bother?
If English is becoming a lingua franca with a billion speakers, why bother learning a foreign language? Isn’t it enough to speak...
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- Sep 17, 2012
The Future of English
What happens when two people who need to communicate with each other learned different mother tongues? In the days of the Ottoman Empire...
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- Sep 11, 2012
Return Ticket
When you need material translated from English into a variety of foreign languages, you might look for a standardized way that allows you...
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- May 28, 2012
Risk Communication and the Medical Linguist
Whether through verbal or nonverbal language, we communicate with others continually and without much thought. Communicating a message...
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- Dec 22, 2011
Sounding it Out
How To Best Prepare For Foreign Sound Recordings/Voiceovers There are many different situations that require the recording of voice...
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- Aug 25, 2011
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be...
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- Jul 4, 2011
Les Merveilles de l’Oreille
A few weeks ago I had the chance to interpret press interviews for German rock band Rammstein at the Forum in Los Angeles and witnessed...
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- Apr 17, 2010
Beating Stigmas with the Click of Your Mouse
According to the American Heritage dictionary (third edition), a stigma is defined as: a mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach;...
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- Mar 19, 2010
Achieving Compliance in Tough Times
In our current blog post, we discuss how the current economic downturn has increased generic drug purchases both domestically and...
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- Apr 20, 2009
Health 2.0 for Everyone?
In the U.S., the trend is toward becoming a super self-educated patient – spending time in chat rooms and on health-related websites. ...
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- Apr 19, 2009
Health 2.0 – The Tale of Two Industries
The internet has become integral to our lives. Introduced to the masses in the mid-90’s, the internet allowed for fast and efficient...
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