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Current Topics in Medical Localization

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

By Richard Sikes, special to The Content Wrangler; Reprinted with permission, MultiLingual magazine, Copyright March 2006, issue #78

If two localization professionals begin to chat about the special problems that their work entails, a fair amount of energy is ...

Filed under: Life Sciences : Localization

The New Recipe for Pharma Success

Monday, March 03, 2008

By Paul Wlodarczyk, JustSystems

One look at the numbers reveals the high stakes game that pharmaceutical companies play in their efforts to bring new drugs to market. In the United States, the numbers include:

$800 million to $1 billion—the average cost of moving a ...

Filed under: Content Management : Life Sciences : Structured Content : Technological Innovation : XML

Some Personal Observations on Electronic Medical Records

Monday, January 28, 2008

By Mark Gross, President, Data Conversion Laboratory

In an age when we download movies at will, store piles of personal records on our BlackBerry devices, beam software to each other’s Palms, and store truckloads of digital photos on some website “out ...

Filed under: Life Sciences : Privacy : Technological Innovation : Wireless

New AMA Manual of Style Helps Science and Medical Writers

Saturday, March 17, 2007

For decades indispensable, the AMA Manual of Style continues to provide editorial support to the medical and scientific publishing community. Since the 1998 publication of the 9th edition, however, the world of medical publishing has rapidly modernized, and the ...

Filed under: Life Sciences

Presentations, Proclamations, & Predictions: FrameMaker 8, RoboHelp & Technical Communication Tools

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Friday, February 9, 2007, we hosted a double-header Adobe product demonstration for Indianapolis-area help developers and technical publications teams. Our featured presenter was Senior Product Evangelist RJ Jacquez, whose demonstrations covered both Adobe FrameMaker ...

Filed under: DITA : Help Authoring : RoboHelp : Life Sciences : S1000D : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : Plug-ins

Interpretation Blues? FDA Releases Draft Guidance On 21CFR Part11

Monday, December 15, 2003

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe magazine recently published an article of interest to those in the life sciences industry entitled The End of the 21 CFR Part 11 Controversy and Confusion?. The article outlines new draft guidance, issued by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Filed under: Life Sciences