Tag: Health
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What are the future topics of Medical Content?
What has the next Decade in store for the Medical Writer and Translator? I have a strong feeling that over the next ten years “Personalised” or “Precision” Medicine will become a prominent feature in many areas of medical content. Genomic testing is becoming more affordable and accessible by the day – you can now analyse…
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Sodium vs Potassium in our Diet
Let’s Reduce Sodium and Eat a Potassium-Rich Diet! Did you know that too much salt is bad for us? My packet of crisps in front of the telly is not just bad for calories, it is also increasing my blood pressure and putting an extra strain on my heart. In this article, I’m going to…
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The future of stroke treatment
Until recently stroke was a non-treatable disease – the management consisted of rehabilitation and prevention. Reversibility of this dreadful event was wishful thinking. But much has been happening over the last few years, and it is worth keeping up to date with the latest therapies. Stroke is becoming a treatable condition After the successful introduction…
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The Morning Coffee
To get a focused start of the day, I start with a mug of coffee – or two. It gets me going. I am sure there are many translators like me who like to kick off with a hot brew of Java. According to a study that was published in the Journal of Nutrition in…
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Immunotherapy – a revolution in blood cancer therapy
If you are keeping up to date with the latest events in the world of medicine, you cannot have missed the promising new immunological blood cancer therapy. Below, I have summarised the salient points of this revolutionary new treatment to get us Medical Linguists up to speed for the new class of drugs that need…
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Muesli: not only etymologically interesting
Muesli – a Swiss German word Back in Switzerland, it was fairly common to eat oats either in the form of a Bircher Muesli (Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist, August 22, 1867 – January 24, 1939) or in a soup (Haferkernsuppe). I liked muesli as a lunch, especially during the hot…