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Melody Key: A High Note in Wellness Tourism for Luxury Adventurers

Melody Key is a hotspot in subtropical blue-green currents, home to vacationing celebrities or boarders who demand exclusivity. Multi-million-dollar homes are attention-getters, and luxury abodes in the Florida Keys are the most prized properties in the U.S.

Industry News

Reverse Brain Drain: Indian Doctor Comes Home to Medical Tourism

Not every doctor wants to leave India, but some are compelled to do so to be educated and trained at a world-renown institution. A growing list of hospitals and high-tech medical centers dedicated to medical tourism patients are recruiting Indian doctors.

Editorial

Adrenal Fatigue: Adaptation and Resiliency

We have multiple systems in our body; however, adrenal function is neglected in conventional medicine and endocrinology. In functional medicine, the status of adrenal is addressed as it affects digestion, immune health, tissue healing, pain, neurotransmitters.

Technology & Innovation

Traveling for Spinal Fusion: Just the Facts

Spinal fusion is a procedure to treat different spine conditions like spinal stenosis, where spinal canal puts pressure on the spinal cord. Another condition that may need spinal fusion is spondylolisthesis, where a vertebra slips on to the vertebra below it.

Patient Experience & Hospitality

Hospital (ity): The New Norm

Providers employing hospitable staff members are attracting more patients, especially domestic and international healthcare travelers. One of the greatest appeals of medical tourism revolves around patients’ ability to be in complete control of their destination.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Turkey: Renaissance of Thermal Therapy

The healing effect of hot spring water is utilized by many cultures for centuries, ages, people took advantage of thermal centers. Various minerals in hot spring water solve different kinds of health problems and provide significant help in medical treatment.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Serenity: Natures Powerful Ally in Healing

Healing gardens are thoughtfully created environments with many sensory experiences and natural elements that alleviate stress. A well-crafted healing garden offers a natural setting that evokes positive feelings, reduces negative emotions and stressful thoughts.

Destination Spotlight

Taiwan Medical Miracle for International Patients

For many, Taiwan is a small country somewhere close to China, but it offers enormous potential as a medical tourism destination. Taiwan’s doors have been opened to medical travelers throughout the world.

Destination Spotlight

Taipei Veterans General Hospital: Joint Replacement Surgery Destination

Taipei Veterans General Hospital is one of the few hospitals with an independent orthopedic department, and surgical department. Taipei Veterans General Hospital developed the seasoned orthopedic medical team in Taiwan treating patients with their symptoms.‍

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism: Need for Arabic Interpreters Goes without Saying

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Middle East travel crackdown leads Arabs to head towards Asia for holiday gateways. Low-cost medical treatment in Asian facilities like Bumrungrad compared to European or North American hospitals diminish the allure.‍

Destination Spotlight

Fertility and Reproductive Medicine: National Taiwan University Hospital

NTUH focuses on academic research and clinical practice including oocytes cryopreservation, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Many patients from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, The Philippines seek fertility treatment at NTUH.‍

Accreditation & Certification

Little Known Fact - Mexico Adopts U.S. Hospital Accreditation Standards

The General Health Council (GHC) in Mexico is a decentralized organization reporting directly to the president. GHC established criteria for medical institutions and organizations and created the National Certification System for Medical Care Organizations.

Destination Spotlight

Just Doing It: Jordan Making Name for Itself in Medical Tourism

Jordan means a lot of things to different people, healthcare aficionados are defining the Arab kingdom in Western Asia. The World Bank ranked Jordan among the top five destinations in the world for medical tourism and first in the region.‍

Destination Spotlight

Self- Funding: Passport to Medical Tourism for U.S. Employers

Most employers confused about the Obamacare, understand that offering health insurance to their employees makes good business sense. Rising costs and evolving complexities four years into the President’s domestic healthcare policy made things clear to employers.

Destination Spotlight

The Americans Are Coming! Medical Tourism Patients Revolutionizing European Healthcare Markets

Governments and hospitals in Europe have only recently begun promoting their services on an international level. Working Americans and health insurance have been linked since the start of World War II, when the federal government capped wages.

Industry News

Doctors Hospital Chief: Medical Tourism Better in Bahamas

Plans to launch a stem cell treatment center, an in vitro fertilization facility, a cochlear implant center, Bahamas is developing. It brings a potential new revenue stream through The Bahamas, 18% of the revenue is coming from medical tourism.

Industry News

South Florida Banking on Boutique Medical Tourism

Miami International Medical Center draws company's extensive experience and global network to connect providers, coordinate services. Nueterra has a multifaceted remodel plan and intends to renovate the nearly 50-year-old hospital to create an upscale environment.

Destination Spotlight

Jeju: Hidden Gem more than Island Resort

The Jeju City Development Center (JDC) hopes to capitalize on the lucrative Muslim population and medical tourism patients. Jeju's pristine environment with healthcare options like hip replacements, obesity treatments, wellness therapies, and plastic surgery.‍

Economics & Investments

Quality Assets Abroad Attract U.S. Healthcare REITs

There are likely several contributing factors to the uptick in U.S. healthcare REITs acquiring foreign assets. REIT targeted both Canada and the U.K. as growth markets some years ago, anticipated doubling of the senior populations in those countries.

Editorial

Find Health in Ecuador and Much More

Ecuador has an old world charm that few Americans were familiar with – until now, what a little research can do? No wonder International Living Magazine has declared Ecuador No. 1 out of the 22 best countries on its Annual Retirement Index for five years.