Translation Tips: Expanding Word Counts
This ongoing series will provide succinct guidance to buyers of translation services. Why does my document have 2000 words but my...
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- Jun 5, 2014
Translation Tips: Components of Pricing
This ongoing series will provide succinct guidance to buyers of translation services. It is nearly impossible to compare quotes if you do...
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- May 26, 2014
Not All Spanish is the Same
While Spanish is the most translated language in the United States, these translations are often fraught with errors because translators...
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- Dec 16, 2013
Mattel’s New Ad Campaign is a Translator’s Holiday Treat
As businesses and society itself go more global, advertising agencies are calling more and more upon translators. But commercial...
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- Nov 25, 2013
5 Things Technology Still Can’t Help Us With
No matter how impressive it gets (can you believe smartphones even exist?), technology does have its limits. Here are five things that...
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- Oct 7, 2013
Falling Through the Cracks
Go ahead – visit http://www.healthcare.gov and take a look. Upper right hand corner gives you the español option. Of the 30 million who...
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- Sep 9, 2013
The Search is On
Search engine optimization is the process of getting free or “organic” traffic to a website from search engine listings on the internet. ...
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- Aug 26, 2013
Blurred Lines: Do Linear Ads Trigger Change?
The July 17th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reported on some results from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey...
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- Apr 8, 2013
One of Their Own
In 2010, Medicare paid more than $17.5 billion dollars for unplanned hospital readmissions as almost one in five Medicare patients...
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- Mar 4, 2013
Digital Trends, Old School Reality
It’s true: your company is progressive and ahead of the times. You have a beautiful, educational diabetes management website translated...
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- Jan 7, 2013
Patient Compliance is in the Semantics
How do we make patients listen to us? Do we speak to them in their native tongue? Do we deliver culturally sensitive messages? Do we...
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- Dec 17, 2012
Anthropologists Save Lives Too
Let’s be honest, “Medical Anthropology” probably sounds like a quirky college major someone made up because they couldn’t get through...
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- Dec 10, 2012
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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- 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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- Jul 17, 2009
Talk is Not Always Cheap
The conclusion of a recent study concerning the affordability, availability and acceptability barriers to healthcare for the chronically...
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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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