In many projects, multilingual informed consent is the document that ultimately determines whether your timeline stays on track or falls apart. Few things are more frustrating for a CRO than having everything ready for site activation, only to become stuck because the consent forms in...
More and more clinical trials depend on what patients report: symptoms, quality of life, and the impact of treatment on their daily lives. These are PROs in clinical trials, and in 2026 they sit at the centre of the regulatory conversation. The problem is that a...
CROs live surrounded by documents: protocols, amendments, investigator manuals, consent forms, recruitment materials, safety reports, scientific publications and more. When each country, each team or each provider manages translations "in their own way", the result is predictable: inconsistencies, rework, data at risk and uncontrolled costs. Centralised...
In a multinational clinical trial, it is enough for a single sentence to be poorly translated for the whole study to falter: misinformed patients, invalid data, regulatory delays running into millions of dollars. Medical and pharmaceutical translation is no longer an "extra," but a central...
Imagine you’ve got everything ready to launch an international clinical trial… and a single ambiguous sentence in the translated protocol delays approval by three months. It happens more often than you’d think. In biomedical research, one word can mean the difference between an approved study...
Regulatory translations are a critical component of the medicinal product authorisation process in the European Union. If the preparation or review of language versions is poorly managed, by failing to follow official templates, skipping specialised linguistic review, or missing submission deadlines, the validation of the...
In the medical field, accurate communication is critical for the well-being of patients. However, when it comes to translating medical documents, errors can occur, which can have serious consequences. In this article, we will explore how to deal with errors in medical translation, and the...
In the pharmaceutical industry, accurate communication is crucial for ensuring patient safety and successful medicine development. As such, the importance of translation in pharma cannot be overstated. In this article, we will explore the vital role that translation plays in pharmaceutical development and the many...
Managing a CRO is not something that just anyone can do. These organisations, immersed in clinical research, have a great deal of weight on their shoulders. At Okomeds, we work with CROs on a daily basis, carrying out specialised translations of clinical trials. Here are...
The translation of clinical trials is an exciting discipline. It is also one of the biggest workloads for medical translators. The fact is simple. There are countless clinical trials every year and all of them need a quality translation in order to make new research...