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Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Take Wellness to Heart: Healthy Employees Worth Weight in Gold

Corporate wellness is a broad term presenting the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and encouraging employees to change their habits. The goal can be achieved in various ways including vouchers for sports activity, workshops with dieticians, or lectures.

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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.

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State-of-the-Art Medical Technology Gives Second Chance at Life

The continuous progression of my lymphedema created great changes to my appearance, the texture of the skin, wart-like growth. I arrived at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan to receive bilateral Vascularized Lymph Node Transfer (VLNT) surgery.

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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.‍

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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.‍

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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.

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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.‍

Economics & Investments

Could Medical Tourism Rescue Medicare -- It's a start

The Medical Tourism Association® has been providing a voice for healthcare providers, insurance companies, overseas nations. A partnership between the Medical Tourism Association® and Squire Sanders has prioritized research to determine the potential cost savings.

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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.

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Why Wait? Medical Tourism Patients Bring Surgeons along for Ride

Faced with long lines for treatments that sometimes stretch over a year, many Canadians are choosing medical tourism procedures. Canadians feel lack of available resources or appropriate technology, a desire to return more quickly to their lives.

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Navigating Federal Health Insurance Exchanges? Find an International Road Map

The Department of Health and Human Services unleashed President Obama’s chief domestic policy initiative at the start of the year. Obamacare has enabled some Americans to afford health insurance for the first time, the Affordable Care Act was supposed to do.

Healthcare Reform - Legal & Policy

The New Medical Exchange Journey : What and Who is Driving Newest Trends in Medical Travel

Key drivers for patients considering medical exchange options are quality, familiarity and price, all taken into consideration. Indicators include national and international accreditations, certification for physicians and specialists and “best in class” reviews.

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Move over Mickey Mouse: Here Comes Medical Tourism

The idea of combining medical procedures with family vacations to offer “medical excellence with a tropical flair. The initiative has attracted patients primarily from South and Central America.‍

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3-D Printing: Breath of Fresh Air for Medical Device Manufacturing

Science Fiction Brought to Life If body part and organ replication sounds like something from the realm of science fiction. 3-D printing doesn’t have advance use in the mass production of medical devices more than just theory.

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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.

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Greetings from Taiwan

Taiwan has an international following to accommodate, one made up of people who want to taste the vibrant night markets. Taiwan is defined by the international patients seeking medical care system that boasts quality, inexpensive prices and hospitable service.

Industry News

Revolutionary Plasma Treatment Injects New Blood into Medical Tourism

Platelet-rich plasma therapy is a treatment used today for a variety of sports injuries and replaced PRP as a bone-healing agent. Recently PRP become popular for treating ailments resulting from golf and tennis elbows and knee and joint problems.

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Take Heart: Groundbreaking Procedure May Boost Medical Tourism to Florida

Florida home to Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center, is a proven tourism site for millions of travelers from around the world. The exposure to existing hospitals and treatment centers like Cleveland Clinic in Orlando and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.

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3-D Printing: Breath of Fresh Air at World Medical Tourism Congress Taiwan

3-D printing technology has been used to recreate a lot of things from jewelry and clothing to guns and even fruit. 3-D printing can claim to have saved life from the throes of tracheomalcia, makes the trachea so weak that it becomes difficult to breath.