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Editorial

BinaBuzz: aBuzz about Sales

Medical Tourism Plans may become the greatest insurance product to roll off of the industry’s well-developed R&D machine. The industry has a great reputation for crankin’ out products that capture any excess premium floating around out there.

Editorial

The Global Nursing Shortage What it Means for All of Us

Although the nursing shortage is not new, more pressing issues have arisen in recent years. New developments in what is affecting the nursing shortage are being found, contributing to why the shortage has a new face.

Destination Spotlight

New Options for Medical Tourism in Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland is a country in Central Europe with 38 million inhabitants and a total area of about 313 thousands sq km. This makes Poland a very attractive tourism desination with the Baltic seacoast, beautiful rivers, lakes.

Technology & Innovation

Two-in-One Surgery Wockhardt Hospitals Creating Medical History

It is a type of surgery that even hi-tech hospitals and experienced surgeons in the country are not confident of undertaking. But chief cardiac surgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals, Dr. Vivek Jawali has created history of sorts by conducting such surgeries.

Editorial

Need your Hip Replaced?

A total hip replacement is a surgical procedure whereby the diseased cartilage and bone of the hip joint is surgically replaced with artificial materials. The normal hip joint is a ball and socket joint, the socket being a “cup-shaped” bone of the pelvis called the acetabulum.

Technology & Innovation

The Mystique of Stem Cells

There is a great deal of discussion these days regarding the use of stem cells. As with any scientific discussion that enters the public domain, mass misinformation and exaggeration of facts is occurring.

Editorial

The Good The Bad and the Ugly

Medical Tourism companies simplify the process for patients seeking surgery beyond their own borders and form the underpinning of the growing global health care industry sometimes called medical tourism or medical travel.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

What is Rolfing Structural Integration?

Rolfing® is an original and scientifically validated holistic system of bodywork and movement education. It releases the body’s segments – arms, legs, torso, and neck from patterns of tension and bracing in a systematic and scientifically validated manner.

Editorial

PLANNING YOUR MEDICAL TRIP ABROAD

When I first meet a Medical Tourist at the airport, my goal is to make them feel comfortable and assure them that I am familiar with what they are doing. I want them to know that I will be there for them throughout their entire trip.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

The Age-Old Healing Art of Hilot

“Hilot” is a word from the Tagalog dialect meaning massage-rubbing or touch with soothing strokes. Touch is the modality of “hilot.” Initially, one might think it is simply a massage, but “hilot” is more. It is energy manipulation.

Destination Spotlight

All About Monterrey Mexico

Monterrey, Mexico is one of the loveliest tourism destinations you’ll ever visit. Should business end up taking you there ~ and medical tourism is a business that might ~ afterward, you’ll be asking,: “How is it that Monterrey escaped notice for so long?”

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

I THOUGHT DIABETES WAS FOR OLD PEOPLE?

Not too many years ago when somebody spoke of Diabetes Mellitus, it was because a young child had it or some very old person. When the doctors at John Hopkins described diabetes in their most recent health alerts it was simply referred to as a metabolic disorder.

Editorial

Forgotten Freedom American Healthcare Under Attack

Our health system represents the best the world has to offer, but in some respects it is woefully lacking. One of the first things that catches your eye about the U.S. health care system is that it is big.

Destination Spotlight

Medical tourism: A New Addition to CHRISTUS Health's Global Ministry

The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of Houston and the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio brought their health care ministries together to form CHRISTUS Health. They created a unique purpose in the modern health care market.

Destination Spotlight

India Rising as the Global Hub of Medical Tourism

Imagine your dental treatment being performed by highly qualified dentists at a fraction of cost than what you would be paying in your own country and combine this with the opportunity to explore the rich cultural heritage of India.

Editorial

New Sentinel Event Policy Works to Make Health Care Even Safer for Patients Around the Globe

At Joint Commission International, we are working with hospitals around the world to minimize these undesirable health care events by creating a culture of safety in which errors are identified and reported, and staff members work in a “no blame” atmosphere.

Destination Spotlight

My Passage to India

On the way to a job as a Home Inspector, I detoured to the hospital emergency room. Having had several kidney stones in the past, this pain felt higher and more on the side, unlike anything I had experienced before.

Editorial

Land of the Free?

I mean, the United States has the best technology, the best medical schools and state of the art healthcare that draws patients from foreign countries to our hospitals for care and for employment experience.

Editorial

JCI CORNER Communication is Essential to Continuity of Care

When seeking a medical procedure in another country, communication is key to having consistent, medically-appropriate, follow-up care. This communication should begin with the patient having a discussion with his primary care physician before the trip.

Destination Spotlight

Smiling Brightly

Owing to the huge difference in dental treatment costs between developed and developing nations, it is not surprising to find that dental patients in greater numbers from developed nations are now seeking standardised dental treatments.