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.
6th July 2017
Erica’s life literally changed overnight. One day, the 38-year-old mother of four was playing in a tennis championship at her local club and the next day, she was having a heart attack. “I had no health problems. I had ...
19th June 2017
“I think Sickle Cell is misunderstood because it's not a visible condition and it affects everyone differently,” says Chantelle Pierre, who was diagnosed with the genetic blood disorder at six months old as part of a routine blood test. “People ...
19th May 2017
Spanish neuropsychologist Gema Climent was instantly drawn to virtual reality tools for evaluating patients after years of observing “paper and pencil tests that were not comparable to the problems people had in real life”. The finalist in the European Commission’...
3rd May 2017
When you’re a busy working mum with kidney failure, the last thing you have time for is dialysis in hospital three days a week. Lucy Ward was in this position until she found the perfect solution with remote monitoring. ...
27th April 2017
From the time Claudia Gärtner was a little girl helping her dad with his business, she knew she would follow in his entrepreneurial footsteps. “I grew up with an engineer father who told me that I could be anything ...
31st March 2017
Women represent only 30% of all entrepreneurs in Europe and medtech is a particularly difficult market to crack. But Mary Franzese isn’t letting this statistic hold her back. The 30-year-old Rising Innovator Award finalist is co-founder of an Italian start-up ...
21st March 2017
Hi there, As you know, today is World Down Syndrome Day. It’s a day for joining forces with others around the world to help raise awareness about what it means to have Down syndrome and how people with Down ...
15th March 2017
Regina Bisikiewicz didn’t start out intending to become a full-time mental health advocate. She just wanted her son to get better. From the moment her 18-year-old son had his first psychotic episode in 2005, the mother of four encountered a ...
28th February 2017
Rare diseases are tricky. Just ask Becky Scheffe, who waited 20 years to get a proper diagnosis for her Long QT syndrome, a heart condition that only affects about one in 7,000 people. It all started when Becky was 17. “I had a ...
21st February 2017
Working in a restaurant is an unfortunate way to learn that you’ve lost your sense of smell, says Alahree McDonell. “I was around 19 at the time,” recalls Alahree of the day she realised, quite by accident, that she couldn’...
