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	Tips for improving the process and reducing the cost of website localization
	Bringing Medical Devices to Market - Useful links
	Celebrating notable anniversaries...

Tips for improving the process and reducing the cost of website localization

Before submitting the project for translation:

1. Ensure that your web hosting platform and website database or transaction processor support accented and special characters (ê, á, Å, ñ, ç, etc.) and double-byte languages (required for Asian languages).
2. Review your website's directory structure to determine how it should be modified to accommodate multilingual content.
3. Evaluate your website's content to determine what should be translated, what should be left in the source language and what, if anything, should be re-written to address the cultural and linguistic requirements of each targeted locale.
4. Create html pages for each target language page (or sub-web).
   1. Develop a navigation structure for each target language website.
   2. Add comments (<! -- >) to website scripts, applet codes etc. to indicate to the translators what should and should not be translated.
   3. Indicate if toll free numbers are accessible internationally.
   4. Procure the source artwork for graphics with embedded text that have been marked for localization.
5. Add a language selection menu to the home page of the source language site and all other pages of the website and multilingual versions. Visitors do not always access the site through the home page.

Bringing Medical Devices to Market - Useful links

Australia - Therapeutic Goods Administration
The regulation of medical devices in the Commonwealth of Australia dates back to 1966, when the Australian Parliament passed the Therapeutic Goods Act 1966. This act placed responsibility for control of therapeutic goods under the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) within the Australian Department of Human Services and Health (DOHSH).
 

Canada - The Food and Drugs Act of Canada
Within the Canadian system, each of the ten provincial governments is responsible for the administration of healthcare delivery within its territory. Funding is partially provided by the Federal Government. However, the Federal Government controls the sale of drugs and medical devices under the Food and Drugs Act of Canada.
 

European Union (EU)
Medical Devices Guidance Document (PDF Format)
The European Economic Community (EEC) was established on January 1, 1958, by the Treaty of Rome. The original member countries were France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The EEC was created to improve economic cooperation among the member states. The official languages of the EU are:
 

Medical Devices Guidance Document (PDF Format)

Mexico - Secretaría de Salud
Like most countries in Latin America and the Pacific Rim, Mexico requires that medical devices be registered with the public health department - Secretaría de Salud - prior to sale.
 

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
The Government of Japan has a long history of regulating the quality, efficacy and safety of medical products. The Pharmaceutical Affairs Law (PAL) of Japan was enacted in 1948 and places the responsibility for medical products under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau (PAB) of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. In Japan, in vitro diagnostic reagents are classified as drugs, while the apparatus used to analyze the results of a text are classified as medical devices.
 

Celebrating notable anniversaries...

Conquering Mount Everest
On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, reached the summit of Everest, the highest point on earth. They succeeded where others had failed. With his mountain climbing days behind him, Sir Edmund Hillary is dedicated to environmental and humanitarian causes on behalf of the Nepalese people. As he prepares to travel to Nepal later this month for the golden anniversary of his momentous climb of the world's highest peak, Hillary is planning to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help impoverished people living in the Himalayan mountains. More about Sir Edmund Hillary...

100 years ago, Marie Curie became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize

In 1903, Marie Curie (née Marie Sklodowska) was awarded the Nobel Prize along with her husband Pierre. She became the first woman to win this prestigious award. Marie Curie is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. More about Marie Curie...

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