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Rise of Luxury Hospitals: Making India a Premier Medical Tourism Destination

Explore the transformation of India's healthcare with the rise of luxury hospitals, a game-changer in medical tourism. Discover how these state-of-the-art facilities blend top-notch medical care with luxurious experiences, holistic patient-centric care, and cultural richness. Learn about the innovative approaches in healthcare architecture, patient experience, and luxurious amenities that set India's luxury hospitals apart, reshaping global healthcare standards. Dive into the world of opulent healthcare, where comfort meets quality in India's burgeoning medical tourism industry.

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Unraveling India’s Cough Syrup Death Crisis

On October 5, 2022, the World Health Organization issued a global alert on four contaminated medicines after they were linked to the deaths of nearly 70 children in The Gambia. The cough syrups, which had been imported from India, caused fatal acute kidney failure in the affected children in what seems to be one of the biggest death crises due to cough syrups imported from India.

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Advanced Reconstructive Surgery Alliance Paves the Way for Practices’ Expansion

ARSA is an alliance of likeminded practitioners with the highest clinical standards and shared resources that offer economies of scale. Our reconstructive and cosmetic surgeons benefit from an adaptive business environment with infrastructure, marketing, and the level of excellence which enables them to concentrate on the business of providing extraordinary clinical services. They are empowered to focus unencumbered – on doing their best work for what matters most...the patient.

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UAE Set to Launch the First Metaverse Hospital

The world’s first metaverse hospital is set to be launched by the Thumbay Group in UAE this October to further blur the boundaries of access to healthcare around the world. 

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Dr. Matthew Kaufman- A Leader in Advancements in Reconstructive Surgery

IFAR’s team of specialists are leaders in their field and each doctor has a unique area of focus and expertise within reconstructive surgery. Dr. Matthew Kaufman has a rare distinction of being board certified in both Plastic Surgery and Otolaryngology (head and neck surgery). This gives him the additional expertise necessary to deal with complex cosmetic and reconstructive problems of the head, face, and neck, and has enabled him to succeed in two of his surgical specialty programs: Phrenic Nerve Surgery and Occipital Neuralgia Surgery.

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Global Healthcare Costs Likely to Increase in 2022 and Beyond

Experts have predicted significant volatility in healthcare costs in 2022 and beyond as a result of the impact of the pandemic not only on the economy but also on overall health. Therefore, organizations and individuals need to be prepared for the sticker shock and implement cost-saving strategies

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Vaccine Tourism: COVID-19 Vaccine Disparities Spurring a New Model of Medical Travel

Vaccine supply mismatch has created a huge demand for COVID-19 vaccines in many low and middle-income countries. Consequently, this has spurred tourism stakeholders to launch “vaccine packages” not only to provide swift vaccinations but also to revive inbound tourism. 

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Changing Travel Paradigms in the 'New Normal'

As lockdown restrictions are being lifted across the globe, travel is gradually recovering, but with lessons learned that may stay that way for years to come. The pandemic will usher in a new normal for the travel industry, one that will prioritize health, safety, and sustainability. 

COVID-19 and Medical Tourism
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What the New Coronavirus Variants Mean for Travel

These new travel restrictions may linger until scientists better understand how these variants behave and find effective therapeutic and preventive interventions against them

COVID-19 and Medical Tourism
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N95 – Ending the Pandemic in 4 Weeks

N95 masks offer the highest level of respiratory protection by face coverings - filtering out up to 95% of the tiniest infectious particles. Global Healthcare Resources has found a way for everyone to access N95’s in small quantities and at affordable costs

Vaccines
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How are the Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines Different?

In one of the swiftest vaccine developments in history, global teams of drugmakers, researchers, and scientists laid the groundwork that spurred the production of vaccines to end the coronavirus pandemic.

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Business in the New Normal: How the Medical Travel Industry is Adapting to COVID-19

As travel restrictions ease and hospitals reopen for non-emergency surgeries, the medical travel industry is making a comeback through creative initiatives that promote a safe return to medical travel.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Travel Vaccine Industry

As the coronavirus pandemic led to widespread economic closures, movement restrictions, travel bans, and changing consumer behaviors, the travel vaccine industry has also had its share of the global downturn.

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Medical Tourism in a Viral World

An updated Medical Tourism Index lays out the international terrain for health travel, but the impact of COVID-19 on such a global industry remains to be seen.

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UAE Launches Blockchain-Powered Health Data Platform

To accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare in the UAE, key players have built a blockchain-powered portal that concentrates all health data in one secure system accessible by authorized members of the chain

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Trump Scraps ‘Birth Tourism’ - Issues New Rules Restricting Travel to the US for Birth Purposes.

The Trump administration is imposing a new visa policy restricting foreign nationals from giving birth in the US so their children can become American citizens, a practice that has been termed “birth tourism”. This new rule, which takes effect on Friday January 24, is one of President Donald Trump’s prime political concerns.

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A Letter from the Founder of World Medical Tourism Congress: Medical Travel Industry Goes to the Middle East

Is the Medical Tourism industry ready for a change? I’m sure you would agree that it is.

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Chinese Tourists Moving in Droves to Japan for Medical Care

A few years ago, Chinese tourists traveled in their thousands to Japan for what was described as explosive shopping sprees. Fast forward several years later, Chinese tourists are still flying to Japan but this time largely for a different reason - medical care.

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Can Stem Cells Help With Parkinson’s Disease?

Jan Paul Olsen, Dominican, 60 years old diagnosed with advanced Parkinson´s disease had almost given in to his deteriorating health but for doctors who offered him a life-changing treatment procedure.

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China Tribunal Gives Final Judgement on China’s Heinous Transplant Crimes

To put an end to a two-decade-long controversy on forced organ harvesting and illicit organ trade in China, the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China - the ChinaTribunal - delivered its Final Judgement June 17, 2019, revealing shocking details.

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Private Hospital in China Shut Down after dozens of Patients Given Fake HPV Vaccines

A private hospital on Hainan Island has been forced to shut down operations after local authorities found it gave fake human papillomaviruses (HPV) vaccines to dozens of patients, including at least one pregnant woman

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3-Year-Old Girl Born with Leg Backwards Finally Walks after ‘Miracle’ Surgery

‍Three-year-old Victoria Komada, born with both legs backward finally takes her first steps after having surgery to correct the defects

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Women in the Workplace a Struggle for Gender Equality

Earlier, women were not entitled to vote, but we witnessed the first women in U.S. history competing against a male for President. Gender equality remains a widely debated topic as women are less likely to get a promotion or hired for a senior position.

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Brexit to Disrupt British Medical Tourism?

After six years in power, David Cameron, British Prime Minister announced his resignation after the United Kingdom voted to leave. The Huffington Post reported that, Cameron will stay in power until October when a new leader can step in.‍

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International Travel Health Insurance

When it comes to international work, study or travel, it's important to be protected around the clock and around the world. Individuals and families have to be able to afford adequate and timely medical help – no matter whether they are traveling or studying.‍

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Healthcare Improvement - Identifying the Right Partner

Healthcare management leaders face many complex issues on a daily basis and can quickly taxed when analyzing various strategies. Healthcare improvement is a priority among a vast number of healthcare services providers and facilities around the globe.

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Today is International Yoga Day

To raise awareness worldwide of the benefits of yoga, the United Nations proclaimed June 21st as International Yoga Day. The very fact that the UN has declared it as International Yoga Day means India has gifted yoga to the world.

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Dispute Resolution Process For Medical Tourism Facilitator Contracts

Medical travel facilitators routinely engage in contractual relationships with a variety of health plans, employers, in-country patient. These contractual arrangements should be memorialized in a written agreement signed by the parties.

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Authenticate Yourself or Your Company at the WMT & GHC

The 9th WMT & GHC taking place in Washington D.C. offers a variety of ways to authenticate yourself and your company. The Medical Tourism Association offers a number of programs, blogs, membership opportunities and more that helps in getting name recognized.

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How Industries Collide: Self-funding, Corporate Wellness and Medical Tourism

Gone are the days when the term medical tourism is used together with surgery, the definition of medical tourism has expanded. Patients needn't leave the country to be a medical tourist as recent form of health travel is called domestic medical tourism.

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Medical Marketers Discuss Importance and Limits of Data

Top women in the medical industry discussed the role of data and the importance of human interaction in medical marketing. The focus of discussion was the use of data and its importance in creating a lasting change in a population.

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AMA Will Discuss Guidelines for Telemedicine this Weekend

With the growth of telemedicine, the AMA decided to meet to decide whether or not to adopt guidelines of telemedicine. The AMA has been working on ways to advise physicians on the best way to deal with and incorporate telemedicine into their practice.

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Six Steps in Selling to Executives

In digital environment, selling at the top may not be necessary, but calling on the relevant executives for the sales opportunity. A relevant executive whose reputation is on the line for a project can use power or influence to usurp the decision.

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Steps to Become a Medical Tourism Pioneer: Certification

An industry which is in the growth and development stage, medical tourism requires participants certification from a known organization. This is the right time to get certified seeing the complexity of the knowledge required to be a success.

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Puerto Rico Hotels Setting the Standard for Health and Wellness

The hospitality industry is getting a piece of health and wellness pie as medical travelers need a place for a medical procedure. Wellness travelers are looking for the best place to go in order to jump-start their healthy lives.‍

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10 Ways Social Media Promotes Your Online Reputation

Earlier physicians and healthcare providers were concerned with their offline reputations, today they care about their online reputation. Physicians and healthcare professionals are engaged in medical tourism, looking to promote their services to tourists around the globe.

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Domestic Medical Tourism Works for Workers and Employers

Employers everywhere are in a difficult situation of finding the best possible care for their employees for the best possible value. Everyone wants the best surgeon operating on them, but getting the best comes at a price.

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Telehealth: Implications for Medical Tourism

The worldwide telehealth market is forecast to be worth $6.5 billion by 2020, a shift in the provision of healthcare services. The telehealth industry which uses information and communication includes preventive care and curative aspects.

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Wellness and Medical Tourism: Opportunity for Travel Agents

With the advancement of mobile devices and internet penetration, news of the demise of the travel agent is quite premature. In some respects, travel agents, doctors, and spas have actually joined forces at the hip to offer health and wellness seekers.

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Developing a Competitive Model for Medical Tourism

Healthcare consumers are willing to travel distances for advanced services at reduced costs, only when the quality level is high. Demand for validated treatment can influence some economies, creating a greater need for ancillary services associated with travel.

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Outbreak to Outcry: Medical Tourism Facilitates Meningitis B Vaccinations

Until the government responds to calls to immunize all children from meningitis B, parents in the UK may continue to seek out private doctors. Policymakers cited budgetary restraints for denying entry into the year-old immunization program beyond babies aged 2-6 months.

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Ransomware: Should Medical Tourism Hospitals, Patients -- Beware?

Surgery just got complicated, hard to identify and difficult to trace, this risk has doctors and hospital administrations in emergency mode. The digital high alert reached a peak earlier this month when ransomware prompted administrators at a Southern California Hospital.

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Right to Try: FDA Reaffirms What Medical Tourism Patients Know

After more than a decade boarding plane to Europe, Asia, Latin America to treat patients, doctors can finally fight prostate cancer in the U.S. That's because the FDA gave American surgeons the go-ahead to perform High-Intensity Focal Ultrasound.

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Radiation Vacation: Medical Tourism Opens Doors to Proton Therapy

Proton therapy, which grabbed international headlines when five-year-old Asha King was removed from a UK hospital last year. However, less than 50 proton centers operate worldwide including 19 in the United States and 21 in Europe.

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Cheers! Medical Tourism Serves British Dad Six-Pack for Life

The procedure, dubbed Abdominal Etching, enables cosmetic surgeons to create a more visible muscular definition in the male torso. The liposuction technique is designed for men who are relatively fit, but desire a leaner, chiseled abdominal appearance.‍

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All the President's Medicine: Jimmy Carter, Cancer and Medical Tourism

Immunotherapy is a new class of cancer-fighting medicines that have not been used and left untouched for several times. Immunotherapy, credited with ridding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter of cancer, is a potential asset to medical tourism patients.

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Drug Options Make Medical Tourism an Easier Pill to Swallow

China where the costs of cancer and the drugs used in their treatments can overwhelm even the most robust health systems. In India, every 50 seconds a person dies of cancer, the health ministry has sought inexpensive forms of Herceptin.

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When Legends Are Made: Medical Tourism, Stem Cells and Starr QBs

Adult stem cells treatments are traced to undifferentiated cells found throughout the body that divide to replenish dying cells. Despite the relaxed government oversight, the potential to ease suffering and reverse their disease is too hard to ignore.

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Opening Doors to China: Medical Tourism Offers Tools for Trade

Chinese visiting the U.S. make a stop in New England either for the lobster, white sandy beaches or brilliant fall foliage. The Maine thing is about the Chinese middle class explosion, prompted business leaders from all corners of the globe to head to east.

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In Market for Medical Tourism? Chinese Seek Healthcare Overseas

Medical tourism has become an option for Chinese patients, who want the best care available and who can afford to pay for top doctors. Other Chinese patients travel overseas for advanced pharmaceuticals that bureaucratic delayed their sale at home in China.

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Don't Stop Believing: Medical Tourism, Caribbean Retirement, Medicare

When Americans dream of a day when they can retire to a Carribean island, they often reminded of the potential harsh realities. It is inevitable that in the next decade, the U.S. will have to amend Medicare regulations.

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Medical Tourism: Lisbon at Heart of Magnetic Surgery in Portugal

Cardiac electrophysiologists at Hospital da Luz have performed more than 1000 ablation procedures to treat atrial fibrillation. Ablation involves long, flexible tubes or catheters inserted through a vein in the patient's groin and threaded to the heart.

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Middle East: Medical Tourism Stakeholders Step Up to Challenge

Medical tourism patients from Europe and other Arab countries have traditionally sought treatment in the Middle East. Population growth, diverse lifestyle-related illnesses and the demand for healthcare services fueled the medical tourism in the Gulf region.

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Grasping Dreams: Hand Transplants Greet Medical Tourism Markets

Demand for double-hand transplants is gaining momentum on the international stage and encouraging patients who lost both hands. Prosthetics for arms and hands are not as advanced as those for feet and legs and the growth of nerves remains a prohibitive factor.

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Arab Health and Wellness: Medical Tourism, Insurance and Genetic Testing

Population growth coupled with lifestyle changes will put increasing pressure on Arab states to deliver healthcare services. There are challenges to an overstretched infrastructure, but demand can mean opportunities as well and that's healthy for all.

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Medical Tourism Takes Off: Lufthansa Redefines Non-Stop Care

Lufthansa - a sponsor of the 8th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress knows better than most airlines. The physicians, facilitators, and travel and hospitality interests rely on Lufthansa for transporting patients and their companions to destinations.

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Brain Cancer: Is Medical Tourism Open to 'Keyhole' Surgery?

The Brain tumor center has clinical fellowships for U.S. and Canadian neurosurgeons and fellowships and visiting scholar programs. By no means do brain tumors adhere to boundaries nor do they discriminate on the basic or region or race.

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Puerto Rico Points to Medical Tourism Training for Personal Touches

The Puerto Rico Medical Tourism Corporation is in the midst of an aggressive campaign to market the island's healthcare services. Investors and entrepreneurs can learn about healthcare and tourism services in Puerto Rico.

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Hungarian Rhapsody: Medical Tourism Training in Budapest is High Note

Hungary has long been considered a thriving destination for dental treatments, plastic surgery, and ophthalmology treatments. Region's propensity to attract health and wellness seekers to Hungary's historic Turkish baths and thermal spas.

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Medical Tourism Training: Dominican Republic Ready to Play Ball

International investors are aware of Dominican Republic status as an elite destination based on the success of the tourism industry. Hospitals and clinics in the Dominican Republic welcomes 20,00 international patients, 1,000 for plastic surgery alone.

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Jordan: Middle East Crossroad Points to Medical Tourism Training

Jordan enjoys the facilities, human resources, and stability to provide quality care even in the face of an aging population. Access to quality care is contingent on more than professional staff and equipment.

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Viral Therapies for Cancer Make Medical Tourism Training in Latvia Vital

Cancer is a big deal in Latvia, the Medical Tourism Association will hold a day-long training workshop to ensure patients get an idea. Healthcare officials in Latvia are working diligently to diagnose early stages of cancer throughout Europe.

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Hitting Bottom: Addiction, Rehab, Medical Tourism and High-End Living

Substance abuse touches everyone those who abuse and those who don't, people spend huge amount to get rid of their addiction. All insurers, including Medicaid, are required to cover the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction.

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Assisted Reproduction: Lisbon Spawns Medical Tourism and Hope

Scientists in Israel working with a team, have successfully created embryonic cells that give rise to sperm and ova in a test tube. The medical breakthrough might someday help tens of millions of people who can't start families.

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Sleeping Giant: Lisbon Awakes to Medical Tourism Opportunities

Portugal is a sleeping giant that is opening an eye toward medical tourism and the country's economy is finally growing again. Lisbon officials have their sights on medical travel opportunities to generate increased revenue and augment healthcare infrastructure.

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Medical Tourism: Lisbon Becomes Automatic Choice for Robotic Surgery

Healthcare speaks to both residents and international visitors to Portugal — who seek a range of multidisciplinary services. The surgical robot takes advantage of minimally invasive techniques to reduce pain, blood loss and infection rates for patients.

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Medical Tourism Strategies in Dubai Reach for Stars

Health and tourism officials in Dubai are outdoing themselves as the city hopes to attract 500,000 medical tourism patients annually. The government plans to build a smart hospital and medical university having 300 beds across 150,000 square meters park.‍

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Eastern Europe Sinking Teeth into Medical Tourism Training

Croatia, the newest member to the EU, is in the midst of an economic recession, gross domestic product declining since 2011. Investment toward training and planning along with enhanced services, essential to elevating medical tourism in the region.

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Medical Tourism Opportunities Breathing Life into Lisbon

Celebrated for its rich and endless nightlife, distinctive neighborhoods, masterful art, and peerless custard tarts. Buoyed by strong investor, government leaders are leaning on the medical tourism industry to finesse Portugal's sluggish economy.

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Organ Transplant Shortages: Kidney Recipient Wins Waiting Game of LIfe

Organ transplants have become the preferred treatment for chronic diseases like kidney failure and heart, lung, pancreas. Despite public awareness campaigns such as kidney paired donation, medical officials have been slow to keep up with the increasing demand.

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Medical Tourism in Korea Brings Holiday Cheer to Cancer-Fighting Child

Known as a mecca for plastic surgery, Korean authorities are hoping cancer patients will change the face of medical tourism. The Korea Tourism Organization, raised a few eyebrows, predicting the number of health travelers to Korea will reach 998,000 by 2020.

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Cayman Islands Health City: At Heart of Medical Tourism in Caribbean

The Cayman Islands is situated 480 miles south of Miami, Fla., the destination offers plenty of natural beauty, fine dining, shopping. It's further complemented by the evolution of Health City, hotel to lodge overseas patients for rehabilitation facilities.‍

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Definitely Dubai: Medical Tourism Changing Face of Healthcare in Desert

Dubai is considered by many including the medical tourism patients to be among the top plastic surgeons in the world. Sometimes called the capital of excess in the Middle East, Dubai is changing the face of healthcare in the Gulf region.

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Healthy Choice: Puerto Rico Turns to Medical Tourism to Boost Economy

Puerto Rico is not just aiming to step into a highly competitive market but also aiming to become a key player. Medical Tourism Association training and certification will compliment Puerto Rico's multifaceted strategy.

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Medical Tourism Patients Finding More to Florida under Sun

Medical tourism is enough to convince anyone that there is more to Florida than warm weather by the pool. It will strengthen Florida's position as a medical tourism destination of choice for both international and domestic healthcare consumers.

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Assisted Suicide: Who Decides -- When, Where and How?

European nations are the favorite place where willing customers can travel, see a doctor, and die on the same day. Assisted suicide is not to be confused with euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

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Medical Tourism Patients Back Prostate Cancer Game-Changer

A quarter-million men in the U.S. are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, according to the American Society of Oncology. Early detection and increased vigilance means more cases can be cured, as most men no longer have to die from prostate cancer.

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Wait-And-See: EU Directive Opens Doors to Medical Tourism

The reimbursement of medical expenses in another member state cannot be refused where a lack of medical supplies and infrastructure. Cross-border patients are beginning to take advantage of the directive and access care across Europe.

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Medical Tourism Patients Can Pin Hopes On Paralyzed Man Walking Again

A man completely paralyzed from the waist down can walk again is truly miraculous and offers hope for millions who were hopeless. It's tremendous news for medical tourism patients waiting for restructured funding and regulations that accelerate biomedical research.

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Oh Canada! Top-Ranked Destination Warming Up to Medical Tourism

Canada topped the list for Country Environment and Medical Tourism Costs, which is good news for major healthcare providers. Canada has all of the characteristics that make medical tourism attractive to patients, especially from the United States.

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Ten Years After: Medical Tourism Surgery is Cause for Celebration

Technologies along with the increasing mobility and medical tourism of consumers are closing gaps in healthcare access. Knowledge gained from the procedure has helped guide similar successful surgeries around the world.

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Grenada Hopes Memory Will Serve Medical Tourism Plans Correctly

Some may have known about Grenada if they remembered the U.S. operation in 1983, when American troops liberated the island from Marxist forces. Those who were not aware, St. George’s had grown from only a few hundred students at the time of invasion to 4,000 today.‍

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Medical Tourism Congress: Smart Homes Answer Aged Old Questions

Some pharma and biotech companies as well as medical-device manufacturers have already begun to transform the healthcare sector. In China, there are more people living with Alzheimer's than any other country in the world.

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Island-Hopping Medical Tourism Patients Land Softly in Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, medical tourism patients can find orthopedists who use the latest instrumentation and apply the newest advances. Puerto Rico can offer the same level or better quality of service than anywhere in the U.S.

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Medical Tourism Congress: Little Words of Encouragement at Women's Summit

Instead of dwelling on the negative, Botti and her sisters transferred their collective energies into productivity and kindness. A few little words proved to be something special, not only morphing into an iconic symbol of sisterhood.

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Ask a Patient: Americans Turn to Medical Tourism for Healthcare Relief

Despite the best intentions of the Affordable Care Act, Americans continue to find difficulties with access to affordable healthcare. The confusion and costs vary widely from one hospital to the next or even looking beyond state or national boundaries.

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Ask a Patient: Medical Tourism Consumers Know Health Is Worth Price

Making Dollars and Sense Out of the Medical Tourism Experience, questions and answers from real and active healthcare consumers. The live interactive webcast connects patients from all over the world to the hospital administrators, doctors and clinicians.

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Hold the Phone: Medical Tourism Answering Call from Mobile Health

Virtual consultations between physicians and patients are among the many reasons medical tourism is using mobile health technology. Mobile health has tremendous potential to help train health workers, manage chronic disease, monitor critical medical barometers.

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Medical Tourism Partners Confront Silent Killer -- Chronic Disease

Parkinson's is so scary as the doctors do not have a test to detect the disease, but sure of its symptoms impaired movement. The good news is that like most non-communicable diseases, Parkinson's is not contagious; doctors are not even sure why it happens.

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Afghan Medical Tourism Patients Find Welcome Mats in India

Medical visas are free and do not require applicants to provide financial statements or proof of medical insurance. Getting Indian visas is easy, and the treatment and medical infrastructure is world-class and affordable at the same time.

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Medical Tourism: Boxing and Wellness Become Weight of Life in Desert

Dubai's efforts to become a leading healthcare destination and supporting initiatives are providing vast opportunities. The opening of the gym comes on a report that found a high prevalence of obesity in the UAE, which authorities fear will weigh heavy.

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Juice Up: Wellness Crazes Fit for Well-To-Do Lifestyles

Juice bar sales reached $1.3 million nationwide last year, which is more than twice the concentrate from a decade ago. For those who don't have enough time to take daily nutrients, liquid concoctions can be healthy alternatives that hit the spot.

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Northern Exposure: U.S. Alliances Target Canadian Medical Tourism Patients

Canadians don't necessarily have a corner on the wait time market, they have to wait for 33 percent more than American counterpart. When the diagnosis called for elective surgery, 25 percent of Canadians waited for four months or more.‍

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Hospitals in Business of Nursing Chinese Medical Tourism Patients Back to Health

Aggressive investments in China's healthcare system begin to pay off in the form safe, effective, convenient and affordable care. Medical hospitals in China can't keep up with demand, wealthy and middle-class Chinese patients are opting for medical tourism.

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Health Insurers Turn to Medical Tourism Strategies to Bypass Obamacare

The uninsured Americans or those with limited coverage, is exposed to medical tourism and taken advantage of the bargain prices. The Affordable Care Act has enabled some Americans to purchase health insurance for the first time.

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Medical Tourism: Piéce de Résistance for Self-Funding U.S. Employers

Despite the Affordable Care Act, U.S. employers have struggled to control spiraling healthcare costs and understand complex provisions. The U.S. has high-quality care but then also at the same time, we have the most expensive care in the world.

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