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.
23rd February 2016
Young children are known for getting into things. That’s how they learn about the world around them. But what happens when a child is severely disabled? A Barcelona-based organisation called the Nexe Foundation has come up with an innovative ...
4th February 2016
For Sophie, New Year’s Eve was as much an “I don’t have cancer anymore” party as it was a celebration of her 18th birthday. To mark World Cancer Day, This Is Medtech shares Sophie’s tribute to 2016 and ...
27th January 2016
Mike Higginbottom blamed his struggles with exercise on being unfit…until his heart stopped beating one day at the gym. “Apparently I pirouetted off the cross trainer, fell on my back and hit my head. I was out like a ...
14th January 2016
Doctors gave Reggie a 20% chance of survival when he was born early at 23 weeks, weighing just over a kilogram. Though Danielle Stoakes and Matt Hansom were excited about becoming parents for the first time, they were also scared. Their son ...
7th January 2016
After two years of trying, Noemi Denish was ecstatic to be pregnant with her first child. But 10 weeks into the pregnancy, she lost the baby. Noemi and her husband were devastated but more determined than ever to have a baby. ...
15th December 2015
It looks like a makeshift wetsuit, but it’s not for surfers. The so-called non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) uses the power of compression to stop women from bleeding to death in childbirth. It’s really that simple. The NASG was ...
9th December 2015
Daniel Titley found a way to show his gratitude 23 years after receiving a donor heart from 14-year-old Stephen Norris, who’d lost his life in a bike accident. Unfortunately, he couldn’t thank Stephen himself, so he did the next ...
7th December 2015
When Gabrielle Jackson suggested writing a column about her experience with this debilitating disease, she discovered that many of her female colleagues at Guardian Australia were silently suffering from endometriosis, too. The next thing she knew, a global awareness campaign ...
3rd December 2015
You may not find this definition in the dictionary, but for National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) Roadshow manager Damian Ball, it’s the one that matters most. Damian inspires young deaf people every day by driving around to schools ...
1st December 2015
We’ve come a long way since the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported over 30 years ago, causing widespread panic, a lot of questions and few answers. Back then, by the time patients were diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency ...
