Along with a growing market economy, Russia’s large treatment-naïve patient population, specialized health care centers and highly skilled clinical research staff have created a favorable environment for outsourcing clinical research. Although the regulatory environment is still improving, the single translation requirement, simplifies regulatory approval to some extent. However, language and cultural barriers remain.
As South Korea becomes a dominant outsourcing location in Asia, the regulatory environment has undergone dramatic changes. The country’s hospitals and westernized healthcare system, along with strong its infrastructure and low costs for conducting clinical research offer high quality clinical research. But despite the single translation requirement, language is still a barrier, as are cultural…
As the number of outsourced clinical trials continues to increase in emerging Latin American countries, sponsors must address new challenges. Despite the single translation requirement, with the exception of Portuguese in Brazil, regional dialects in each country must be considered. Implementing new measures to overcome cultural differences and socioeconomic barriers will not only better protect patient rights but it will also improve the quality of clinical research in the region.
CHDI Chooses Language Connections for Medical Translation Services Boston, April 10, 2015 – Language Connections, a global language service provider based in Boston, was hired by CHDI Foundation for life sciences translation of clinical research documents in each of the Scandinavian languages. Medical document translation services require in-depth knowledge of medical terminology in both the source and target…
Translation of Patient Recruitment Documents Boston, MA – Language Connections is a Boston interpreting services agency that works closely with companies involved in the Life Science industry, including Contract Research Organizations (CROs). One of our clients, Parexel International, a large global CRO primarily involved in organizing clinical trials, requested multilingual clinical research document translation for various pharmaceutical companies…