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Fecal Transplants: Gut Feelings for Medical Tourism Patients

Fecal matter isn't a load of crap to medical tourism patients willing to travel to the Northwest corner of the United States. To these medical tourism patients, a fecal transplant was anything, but a pain in the behind as it actually saved their lives.

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Belize Puts Best Foot Forward via Medical Tourism

Leading government officials from the Caribbean nation recently met with MTA representatives to discuss packaging health. Belizean officials confirmed that the nation just completed a feasibility study to assess strengths to build its medical tourism foundation.

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Georgia Republic Takes First Steps on Road toward Medical Tourism

As democracy continues to take shape in Georgia, business, healthcare, and government leaders are exploring ways to fit medical tourism. MedTourGeorgia began to unearth some this potential during a daylong workshop, presented in partnership with the MTA.

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Mexico: Dentists Have Medical Tourism Training to Sink Teeth In

Certification helps healthcare and hospitality professionals seeking practical training to manage the international patient-care process. It fills a growing need for qualified and experienced skills at hospitals now focusing on medical tourism in Mexico.

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Medical Tourism: Nicaragua no Longer a Menacing Headline

The nation's tourism bureau is making other news as both a medical tourism destination and a retirement vestige for baby boomers.‍ The planned development is one aspect of Nicaragua's growing participation in the global medical tourism industry.

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Free Medical Tourism Facilitator Webcast :: Tuesday July 2, 2013

Medical tourism facilitators have the unique responsibility to navigate patients through their medical procedures safely and securely. Today's medical tourism facilitators have to build meaningful relationships with healthcare providers in the region.

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IVF Combines Vacation with Affordable Path to Pregnancy

The frustrations of trying to get pregnant have forced more than one woman to cross the line, past their national borders. As fertility costs soar in the U.S. and across the globe, IVF for women is a fraction of the price in foreign countries.

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Turkish Unrest Puts Medical Tourism in Unstable Condition

Visiting foreign travelers recovering from treatment or procedures would be hard-pressed to look past the tumultuous street. The Turkish government has vowed to end protests it says were co-opted by extremists, the park is home to hundreds of young people.

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Medical Tourism: Nueterra not just in Kansas any more

As self-insured employers hop on the medical tourism bandwagon, an American healthcare management company is finding a good deal. Nueterra Global Alliance has been referring patients to international destinations, where they find top quality healthcare.

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Dubai Medical Tourism Strategy Moves Forward

Health officials in Dubai have launched a strategy for making the Arab nation a top destination for medical tourism. Sustainable development plan incorporates prevention and awareness; easy access to health services; quality; and investment and competitiveness.

Economics & Investments

Role and Contribution of Medical Tourism toward Indian Economy: A Relative Study of the Prominent Participants in Hospital and Hospitality

India today has copious opportunities to compete with developed nations and build a quality healthcare system of its own. This escalation is facilitated by the corporate and hospitality sectors involved in medical care.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Health and Wellness Tourism Today

According to the WHO health is a state of physical mental and social well-being and not merely the complete absence of disease. Health and wellness involves several well-being dimensions including physical, mental, social, sexual, emotional, cultural, spiritual.

Destination Spotlight

Strategy to Increase Brand Value of Indian Hospitals in International Markets

Indian hospitals have been struggling to compete against international hospitals to attract patients at various forums. India has many hospitals and clinics that offer treatments in nearly every medical sector including cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.

Editorial

Global Smile: World-Class Dental Services alongside Environment Consciousness

In the digital age, change is instant, development and improvement are lightning fast, and access to everything is readily on-tap. With vision and determination, the finest global resources are increasingly woven into world-class facilities across many fields.

Destination Spotlight

Domestic Medical Tourism in Australia

Medical tourism is the practice of patients travelling to another country for diagnostic, non-surgical or complex medical treatments. Domestic medical tourism has been in Australia for at least the past century, when patients travelled from very remote and regional areas to capital.

Destination Spotlight

Crimea: Birthplace of Modern Medical Tourism

Few places on earth have as many spas, sanatoriums and clinics as the southern shores of Crimea – 2000 year old tradition. Following recent Ukrainian government activities, fiscal initiatives, renewed interest of Russian banks, Crimea is back – and with polish.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Algarve Portugal: Beyond Surgery in the Medical Tourism Industry

We hear about news and studies involving new treatments, surgeries and the increasing possibility of the cure of many diseases. Algarve, in Portugal, is one of the most beautiful and prepared places for short- or long-term treatments to recover from a surgery.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Ozone and Thalassotherapy: an Alternative Form of Healing

Thalassotherapy is the use of ocean and seawater, ocean climate, marine products like algae, seaweed, mud, for medicinal purposes. Ozone therapy is the method of introducing molecule into the body, creating an oxygen-rich environment to stop various diseases.

Accreditation & Certification

Concierge Services in Medical Tourism

An increasing number of patients travel to different places a great distance from their homes to seek medical procedures. Medical services are rapidly evolving for both the national and international providers.

Healthcare Branding & Sales Basics

Successful branding starts with the brand promise and the organization’s ability to ignite the cognitive sparks of target patients. As healthcare marketers, we understand that patients are interested in solving pressing health and wellness concerns.