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When travelling or surfing the internet, we always seem to stumble upon a translation that went wrong. From warning signs like “slip carefully” to advertising ads such as the infamous “nothing sucks like an Electrolux”, it seems these types of mistakes are endless. For industries such as Life Sciences, getting it wrong does not come […]

400. This is the approximate number of languages that have become extinct in the last century. What is even more worrying is that it is predicted that this number will continue to grow in the next 100 years. According to UNESCO, half of the 6000+ languages still spoken in the world today will vanish by […]

As we continue our educational posts from the Q1 Medical Device & Diagnostics Labeling conference in April of this year, we now want to pass along what we learned in regards to Establishing a Global Labeling Strategy and three key take-aways. Labeling for medical device manufacturers is becoming more often referred to as “real estate.” […]

What is all the fuss about? Over the past few years there has been an inclination in countries, regulatory bodies and local authorities requesting life science companies to display greater amounts of information on the labels of their medical devices and corresponding IFUs that are used only by medical professionals. Information spans from warnings and […]

Whether you are an avid traveler, career hungry, or forgetful, learning a new language could be the missing puzzle piece you have been looking for! A medical study published in the Annals of Neurology is the latest in a series of scientific research to point out that learning a new language is a good exercise, […]

It may just seem like yesterday that you began preparations to change your multilingual content in accordance with the FDA’s UDI Final Rule Phase I. No sooner having closed that chapter, the next has begun requiring even more changes to labeling and packaging content. September 24, 2015 will come sooner than you think! Let’s recap […]

As first reported by The MIT Technology Review, research has proven what most of us already knew! Regardless of your native language, city slickers and country-folk speak and sound differently. It’s long been understood that Chicagoans speak differently than those who hail from Philly. And the French spoken in Paris is different than the French […]