by Julia Tuff | Sep 18, 2017 | Professionalism
Translation and Interpreting are careers that take a great deal of training and experience to get into. It is not sufficient just to undertake a language course or to speak a language well. Translators and Interpreters need specialist training, excellent subject...
by Julia Tuff | Aug 11, 2017 | Medical devices, Medical devices for cardiac arrest
In the UK it is now commonplace to see portable defibrillators (also known as AEDs) in public places such as supermarkets, village halls and community centres. This clever device was invented by a Northern Ireland physician named Frank Partridge. Pantridge was in the...
by Julia Tuff | Apr 5, 2016 | Medical innovation, Stem Cells
Our skin is our largest organ. It is what keeps the environment at bay. Those people who need a skin graft due to an injury to their skin currently have limited choices. Either a skin graft or artificial skin to replace damaged tissues. There have been great...
by Julia Tuff | Feb 23, 2016 | Medical innovation, Professionalism
In November I attended a record number of CPD events. The total amount of time spent was 20 hours and each event was in London. I felt rather like a regular commuter on the London-bound train to Waterloo and made good use of my Oyster card. The most important event...
by Julia Tuff | Feb 23, 2016 | Translation Services
Translation is a service that we all use – usually unknowingly. With the advent of globalisation in the late 20th Century there was a huge rise in cross-border trade and an increasing need for translation of business, technical and scientific documents. Translators...
by Julia Tuff | Feb 23, 2016 | AMR, Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance and the threat to human health Have spent past week working on a scientific paper looking at antibiotic resistance trends in Japan. This has been thought provoking work. I started wondering if this is the time-bomb waiting to go off in terms of...
