What an Auditor Actually Checks in Your Translations
A translation can read perfectly, pass a native speaker without a second glance, and still hand you a finding in the audit – and the reason tends to surprise the people. The assumption going in is...
Back Translation in Clinical Trials: What It Actually Proves
A back translation lands in your inbox, you read it against the original, and the two versions line up almost sentence for sentence. Relief all round. The file is signed off, the box marked...
Medical Video Translation: Essential Guide for Healthcare Companies Going Global
The healthcare industry is experiencing a multimedia revolution. As medical organisations increasingly rely on video content for patient education, training, and global communication, a new...
7 Proven Ways to Cut Translation Costs Without Sacrificing Quality
Picture the last time you received a translation invoice that made you wince. The project that was supposed to cost £3,000 somehow became £4,500, peppered with rush fees and revision charges you...
Mastering Multilingual SEO for Technical and Medical Content (2026 Update)
We first published a guide to multilingual SEO a few years ago, and most of the fundamentals in it still stand. What has changed is the thing doing the searching. Since that original piece,...
The Medical Device Language Matrix: Six Assumptions That Delay Market Access
A manufacturer we worked with recently had translated their IFU into what they believed were all the required European languages. Their translation programme was well-managed, their documentation...
Source Documentation Issues to Avoid: Advice for Technical Writers That Will Save on Medical Translation Costs
Many budget overruns and quality problems in medical device translation are traceable to the source document rather than the translation itself. Translator queries, revision cycles, terminology...
Translation Language Expansion Calculator: How Long Will Your Document Be?
If you've ever sent a perfectly laid-out document to a translator and got back something that no longer fits its own template, you've experienced language expansion first-hand. It's one of those...
Where UK MDR and EU MDR Differ in 2026
Where UK MDR and EU MDR Differ in 2026 — and Why It Matters for Your Multilingual Documentation If you're selling medical devices into both UK and EU markets, you'll have heard that the two...
Software Localisation Services: A Guide to UI/UX Translation & App Localisation
Translating a document is one thing. Translating software is another beast entirely. When you localise an application, you're not just converting words from one language to another—you're rebuilding...