Karen spent the past 20+ years providing editorial services for leading B2B publications, large corporations, small businesses, individuals and students around the world. Her portfolio includes articles and business communications on pharmaceuticals, medical technology, healthcare policy, regulatory and legal systems, international trade and intellectual property. Her articles have been published in Scrip Regulatory Affairs, Clinica Medtech Intelligence, MedNous, SecuringPharma and International Trade Today, among others.
29th July 2015
For many women, the months leading up to your 40th birthday can bring on typical mid-life crisis anxieties: you’ve already peaked, you’re starting to look a bit frumpy, your bikini days are over. Karen also belonged to this ...
8th July 2015
In her award-winning role as Claire in the movie Cake, Jennifer Aniston plays a painkiller-addicted mum who’s lost her son in a car crash that’s left her in agonising pain. The emotional suffering from her son’s death ...
10th May 2015
“Being a mum can be stressful at the best of times, but when you have hepatitis, there’s an added layer of worry that most people don’t even know about,” says Natalia Jeleva, who’s been carrying the hepatitis ...
19th April 2015
Nobody is at their best after a bad night’s sleep, so imagine how you would feel if you never slept well. Like, never ever. Pretty desperate, huh? This was the reality for Stuart Lamont before he got treatment for ...
7th April 2015
Welcome to sub-Saharan Africa, where innovative health care isn’t always about cutting-edge medical technology. It’s just as likely to be about having a reliable motorcycle. In this respect, UK-based charity Riders for Health is leading the way. Ex-motorbike ...
9th March 2015
What happens when four passionate, fearless, determined, tech-savvy and more-than-a-little-bit-frustrated women, take on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? You end up with a breakthrough global campaign called #GetYourBellyOut! The #GetYourBellyOut campaign is harnessing the power of social media to unite thousands ...
11th February 2015
Nothing can prepare you for the distressing news that your baby has a life-threatening heart defect. Even more frightening is finding out that the doctors missed it and sent your newborn home with a clean bill of health. This is ...
27th January 2015
Londoner Hedy Watt was planning for her daughter’s arrival in a pool specially designed to be used in labour and childbirth, with little or no medical intervention. Like many women with straightforward pregnancies, Hedy wanted to have her baby ...
16th December 2014
The thought of an artificial organ that’s keeping you alive from outside your body – literally carrying the blood through tubes from your body into a machine sitting next to you, which cleans it and then pumps it back into ...
8th December 2014
“Womb sounds.” “Mother’s smell.” “Less scary.” These are just some of the things that new mums wish they could change about incubators to make them seem more like the real deal. After reading about the German Hohenstein Institute’s ...
