Our medical translation services cover English paired with Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Arabic-English-Arabic is our deepest pair, supporting researchers across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, and Jordan. You are matched with a translator who is a subject-matter specialist in your field, spanning health sciences, clinical medicine, nursing, and public health, and every target text is revised by an independent second linguist before delivery.
Medical and academic translation is not the same as general translation. A general translator can render an article competently but will mistranslate odds ratio, incidence, adverse event, per-protocol, intention-to-treat, case-fatality rate, and dozens of other terms that change a paper's clinical meaning. Our translators have published their own peer-reviewed work and have completed sworn-translator or American Translators Association (ATA) certification.
Document types covered:
- Manuscripts and journal articles (translation for submission to international journals or for publication in your local language).
- Systematic review and meta-analysis full reports, including PRISMA-P protocols, search strategies, and forest-plot legends.
- Clinical study protocols (Phase I to Phase IV), informed consent forms, patient information leaflets.
- Case report forms (CRFs), study reports (CSRs), and trial summaries.
- Regulatory submissions to the FDA, EMA, MHRA, Saudi FDA, NUPCO, and equivalent national authorities.
- Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments, with linguistic and cultural validation following the ISPOR Good Practices, using back-translation and reconciliation where instrument validation requires back-translation.
- Conference abstracts, posters, and slide decks.
- Grant applications for international funders.
- Theses and dissertations for binding and submission.
- Hospital and clinical SOPs, training manuals, accreditation materials.
Every project follows a translation, edit, proofread (TEP) workflow:
- Translator 1 drafts the target text. Clinical and statistical terms are drawn from a standardized medical terminology glossary anchored in MeSH, ICD-11, MedDRA, and the CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, SPIRIT reporting guidelines, so subject-matter translation stays consistent across the document.
- Translator 2 (independent) compares source to target line by line, flags any divergence in clinical meaning, and harmonizes terminology.
- Senior reviewer (PhD methodologist for research papers, or pharmacist or physician for clinical documents) reads only the target text and flags anything that does not read like native scientific prose.
- Final QA checks numbers, units, decimal separators, dates, drug doses, and statistical results against the source, then confirms a journal-ready target text formatted for your intended outlet, depending on the target journal's language.
This mirrors the ISO 17100:2015 requirements for translation services and the EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles (European Association of Science Editors, 2018), the standard expected by international medical journals and regulatory authorities. It also aligns the target text with the ICMJE Recommendations (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, 2024) that reviewers apply to submitted manuscripts. A single-translator workflow, common in cheap online services, has no independent check on clinical meaning; the second-translator pass exists precisely to catch the divergences the first pass cannot see.
Arabic medical translation, English to Arabic and Arabic to English
Our Arabic specialist team is based across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE. We handle:
- Modern Standard Arabic for journals, theses, regulatory documents, and patient-facing materials in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, Egypt, Jordan, and the wider Arabic-speaking world.
- Saudi Arabia-specific terminology for SFDA submissions and KAUST or KFSH&RC manuscript translation.
- Egyptian medical terminology for Egyptian universities and hospitals.
- Linguistic validation of patient-reported outcome instruments (FACT, EORTC, SF-36, PROMIS) into Arabic, following ISPOR good-practice guidance.
Arabic is a particularly demanding pair for clinical writing, English source documents are dense, abbreviation-heavy, and use Latin scientific names that must be rendered correctly in Arabic transliteration. Our translators publish in Arabic-language journals themselves and understand the conventions.
Pricing on the medical translation service scales with the source document and is driven by language direction, document type, and length.
- Language direction. English to Arabic and Arabic to English is our deepest pair and carries one rate band. European languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German) sit in a lower band. Asian languages (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean) sit in a higher band.
- Document type. Standard manuscripts, abstracts, and theses form the base tier. Regulatory documents with full translation, edit, proofread (TEP) workflow and sworn-translator certification carry a higher tier to account for terminology QA and certification overhead. Linguistic validation of patient-reported outcome instruments (forward translation, back translation, reconciliation, cognitive debriefing) is scoped per language and depends on instrument length.
Whatever the scope, the fee is fixed and agreed in writing before work begins, it is the same regardless of where you are based, and it does not change after delivery. Send the document and your target deadline through the quote form and we will return a free itemized quote.
If you wrote a paper in English as a non-native speaker and want a native English editor to polish it, that is English language editing, part of our academic editing service. If you wrote a paper in Arabic and want it published in an English-language journal, that is translation, this service. If you wrote a paper in English originally but want an Arabic version for a local journal or for institutional review, that is also translation.
Many manuscripts go through both: write in your native language, translate to English, then have a native English manuscript editor polish the translated text for journal submission. When a study needs an original English draft rather than a translated one, our medical writing team builds the manuscript from your data and analysis. Published translated and edited papers are on our sample deliverables page. We can scope the bundle for you and quote a single fixed fee for the combined work.
Saudi and Gulf researchers often need a complete pipeline, managed systematic review delivery or meta-analysis in English, statistical analysis in English, manuscript translation to Arabic for a local thesis defense, then manuscript editing of the English version for submission to a Q1 international journal. We bundle these workflows under our Saudi research services and Gulf research services hubs.
For thesis defense, we translate only the Arabic-language sections required by the university (cover, abstract, defense form). The full thesis stays in English. This is the most common Saudi PhD setup.
Confidentiality and certification
Every project is covered by a non-disclosure agreement. Translators do not retain source files after delivery. For regulatory and accreditation submissions, we provide a certification letter signed by the lead translator stating the translation is a faithful and accurate rendering, with the translator's qualifications and contact details. The certificate is accepted by the SFDA, FDA, EMA, MHRA, and major university bodies.