For any patient considering medical tourism for the first time, places like India, Thailand and Costa Rica can be a good choice. Patients thinking about becoming medical tourists have heard about the tremendous travel opportunities, the incredible cost saving.
Nobody expected Obamacare to get a free ride through Congress and onto the president’s desk for his signature – and it didn’t. Perhaps 23 percent claimed to not know enough to say which is representative of the state of confusion that is Obamacare today.
Wellness travel is one of the fastest growing trends in medical tourism today, and worth more than US $106 billion. The study reports there are 289 million active wellness consumers in the top 30 industrialized nations, prompting and enabling agents.
The Maltese government wants to form some healthy contacts with the business community to support medical tourism. the Ministry of Health in Malta has announced the establishment of a Business-Friendly Contact Desk to promote relationships and develop ventures.
As the Medical Tourism industry booming, people are traveling overseas for medical treatments causing a demand for facilitators. The MTA has created the Certified Medical Tourism Specialist certification to take the extra step in educating themselves.
Doctors in Poland performed a risky, ground-breaking face transplant on a 33-year-old man in order to save his life. Patients usually have to wait several years before undergoing face transplant surgery, but after a work accident doctors had to respond quickly.
A leading Guyana business urged Florida entrepreneurs to quickly capitalize on the wide range of investment opportunities in Guyana. The minister told business representatives that his nation has land, labor and access to capital, the three important ingredients.
The last place a child might want to take a vacation to these days is tornado-ravaged Oklahoma which was hit by storm killing 24. That last place happens to be where some 52 children from the United Kingdom have come to find life.
Retirement may be nothing more than a pipe dream after the 55-year-old begins to think about the price of quitting early. Health Care Costs from Birth to Death examines the impact of age and gender on overall and retiree health costs, Medicare spending.
The Abu Dhabi government plans to set up a financial-free zone on Al-Maryah Island, mimicking the success of similar initiatives. The new free zone, Abu Dhabi World Financial Market, will cover a total area of 1,680 square kilometers on the island.
Afghan patients seek a variety of different medical procedures abroad including, treatment of cardio-vascular disease. And cardiac surgery, orthopedics, general surgery, spine surgery, renal diseases especially kidney stones removal, oncology, dental procedure.
The industry that attracts foreigners to Israel for medical procedures is chipping at the nation’s equal access to healthcare. Israel is ranked among the top 28 healthcare systems because of its cancer, fertility and IVF treatments and neurosurgery.
Clinical organ transplantation has been recognized as one of the great medical advances of the century. However, they have raised many ethical, moral and societal issues regarding supply, the methods of organ allocation, and the use of living donors including minors.
As the world economy struggles, the government of Taiwan is working to fill the shoes of industrial transformation with free trade. This means medical tourism could get a bump if the government follows through on the tax-free zones, surging economic development.
In an op-ed published in the NYT, Jolie announced that she had a double mastectomy after learning she carried a faulty gene. Jolie's announcement sent shockwaves and words of encouragement through any woman with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer.
Turkey's economy is getting a facelift, a hair-raising experience of sorts that is not only sprouting the growth of whiskers. Long favored as a destination for the follicly challenged, Turkey’s cosmetic surgeons have for years offered hair implants to balds.
You've heard that medical tourism can ease some of the worries related to rising costs to readily available healthcare procedures. Medical tourism expenses incurred overseas can be deducted when filing annual tax returns.
Some might call it a miracle. Others say it's a trachea made of plastic fibers mixed with stem cells and fixed to the place. A two-year-old girl knows only that it is breathing life into her tiny body that only a month earlier was given little hope of survival.
The days of foreigners travelling to Britain to take advantage of the United Kingdoms 'free healthcare services may be numbered. Anyone referred to a general practitioner for surgery is given a number, which entitles them to care.
Already frustrated with long lines and a scarcity of specialists, patients in Puerto Rico are finding they may have little choice. Recently, some of the top doctors in Puerto Rico have left for the U.S. in search of higher salaries and greater reimbursement.
