Medical Language Translation Services

We provide a wide range of clinical trial translations in Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and over 50 other languages.

A clinical trial is the rigorous testing of new drugs or medical devices conducted on human subjects. The purpose of a clinical trial is to determine the safety and efficiency of new pharmaceuticals or medical devices before they are approved by the regulatory authorities and released on the global market. Due to the fact that drugs and medical devices have a direct impact on human beings, clinical trials are a vital component in the development of a healthcare related product. Manufacturers have to spend millions of dollars and years of research work before releasing a new product to the market.

Clinical trials are increasingly taking place in developing countries such as China due to lower costs, more willing participants and the presence of patients with varied diseases. This has created a demand for clinical trial translation services that utilise highly trained medical translators with scientific backgrounds. Clinical trial translation has become a key factor during the process of a clinical trial, including clinical research, regulatory review, manufacturing and marketing. Our Chinese clinical trial translation services continue to lead the pack in this specialised field of the translation industry.

Abacus Translators has the capacity to handle all your clinical trial translation projects:

• Case Report Forms (CRF)
• Clinical Trial Materials
• Doctor Guides
• Documents for Regulatory Agencies
• Drug Inserts
• Informed Consent Forms (ICF)
• Information Leaflets for Patients
• Marketing materials and web content
• Manufacturing Specifications
• Patient Questionnaires
• Patient Guides
• Patents
• Regulatory Documents
• Training materials

We provide a wide range of translation services for medical device companies in Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and over 50 other languages. Our medical device translators have extensive industry-specific experience, as well as ongoing training and testing to ensure that our medical device linguists consistently deliver high quality medical device translations.

The demand for translations in the medical devices industry continues to increase:

• Medical device exports have quadrupled over the last 15 years.


• Over half of the medical devices manufacturers state that their product development is driven by the prospect of overseas opportunities.


• Healthcare Regulations in the European Union and an increasing number of other countries prevent various manufacturers from marketing medical devices without the product labels, instructions for use, and critical documentation being translated into the local languages. Our medical device translation services assist in satisfying these requirements.


• The Chinese government has heavily invested in the construction of thousands of hospitals, healthcare centres, and clinics, which will inevitably lead to increased spending on medical devices and equipment in a relatively short period of time. This will result in unprecedented demand for medical device translations in the near future, particularly Chinese medical devices translation.


• Medical device market growth for 2011 is estimated to be in the region of 13.1%, and will result in the medical device industry being one of the fastest growing markets in the world. High rates of growth are not uncommon in the Asian region during recent times, but China's growth is particularly pronounced.


• By 2017 the Chinese medical devices market is expected to reach $30.6 billion, up from $14.8 billion in 2010, and consists of both regional and overseas participants. Approximately 13,000 Chinese companies work in the medical devices market, traditionally in wound care, disposables and surgical equipment. Multinationals are usually working in the hi-tech cardiovascular, IT and imaging segments, but this trend is shifting as more Chinese companies are also moving into this arena.


• Another strong growth driver is China's skilled workforce of approximately 800 million people, which is an attractive option for overseas companies looking to reduce their medical import and export costs. Our Chinese medical device translators possess the knowledge and medical experience needed to help you access this rapidly developing market.


• Medical devices are becoming available from China and India that are cheaper by factors of as much as 10. For example, portable electrocardiographs that cost $500 rather than $5,000, and they are no longer cheap imitations of Western designs, as these medical devices are often just as effective as the alternatives from the USA and European medical device companies.

Abacus Translators has the capacity to handle all your medical device translation projects:

• Medical devices & equipment translations
• Anaesthesia delivery translations
• Cardiac rhythm management devices translations
• Cardiology translations
• Catheters translations
• Dentistry translations
• Diagnostics translations
• Endoscopy translations
• Orthopaedics translations
• Magnetic resonance translations
• Neurology translations
• Patient monitoring translations
• Radiology/Ultrasound imaging translations
• Resting ECG systems translations
• Sterilisation/infection control translations
• Surgical instruments translations
• Vascular translations
• Ventilation translations

Our pharmaceutical translators are experts in pharmacology and have extensive experience in biochemical research, clinical trials, product licensing and patents, product marketing, and patient instruction. Our pharmaceutical translation services are completed by translators who are also highly experienced in translating pharmaceutical dosage forms and pharmacology reviews.

The pharmaceutical industry is growing at a rapid pace in China and Japan, which is due to globalisation and the increasing knowledge and distribution of Asian based pharmaceutical companies. This globalisation is accompanied by a huge surge in the demand for high quality pharmaceutical translation. The increasing use of agricultural chemicals has also resulted in pharmaceutical studies being published in various languages. Our Chinese pharmaceutical translations and Japanese pharmaceutical translations continue to be at the forefront of this specialised translation field. We ensure that each pharmaceutical translator we employ has the requisite linguistic and subject matter expertise to translate pharmaceutical documents accurately.

Our pharmaceutical translation services include the following specialities:

• Case Report Forms (CRF)
• Clinical trial documents
• Clinical evaluations
• Drug catalogues
• FDA applications
• Human treatment manuals
• Informed Consent Forms (ICF)
• Ingredient reports
• Lab reports
• Legal applications for agricultural chemicals
• Manufacturing specification documents
• Marketing materials and web content
• Medical equipment documentation for manufacturing approval, manuals and catalogues
• Medical science studies
• Patents
• Patient guides
• Patient questionnaires
• Pharmaceutical dosage forms
• Pharmacology reviews
• Pharmacology summaries
• Prescription drug information
• Regulatory documents
• Scientific abstracts
• Toxicity assessments
• Veterinary drugs